one of the amazing things about smalltalk was that it used continuations to track the user as they navigated and used the system. at a time before javascript at

one of the amazing things about smalltalk was that it used continuations to track the user as they navigated and used the system. at a time before javascript ate the world, it was pretty revolutionary. the hard part was that you needed to maintain sticky sessions where a user would be directed to the same machine. nowadays, you can get a lot of the same benefits using elixir phoenix with liveview. And unlike smalltalk, the BEAM is uniquely suited for providing a dedicated thread per user. arguably, elixir implements a type of OO thats more in the spirit of alan kay's original design to boot.