I'm backing this. For those who say that no Smalltalk implementation has ever embraced the native OS and always sought to replace it, check out Dolphin Smallta

I'm backing this. For those who say that no Smalltalk implementation has ever embraced the native OS and always sought to replace it, check out Dolphin Smalltalk [1]. It might be a little outdated now. I haven't kept up with it, but it was (is?) built by a 2-man company and at one time almost closed it down due to poor sales. But before .NET, it had even better support than Visual Studio for COM development and debugging, as well as integrated natively with Windows control in a nice framework. If you have a copy of Windows around, you really owe it to yourself to spend an hour or two, to download and play around with the evaluation version. [1] http://www.object-arts.com/ http://www.object-arts.com/