Every few years I get the urge to dive into smalltalk/squeak/cuis/<insert smalltalk variant here> and while it suffers from being pretty heavily stuck in an era

Every few years I get the urge to dive into smalltalk/squeak/cuis/<insert smalltalk variant here> and while it suffers from being pretty heavily stuck in an era and a small community it always feels like a window into what could have been if operating systems in general and unix in particular didn’t stop at CLIs with a window manager tacked on top. In fact having recently revisited some old classic Mac things, it’s sort of interesting to note how despite how nice it is that osx has Unix underneath and windows has the WSL it also means we’re converging on a design with a lot of old baggage.