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Did anyone here ever get a chance to play around with the Squeak VM? http://www.squeak.org/ http://www.squeak.org/ It's basically "Smalltalk OS", running on a
by lectrick 12y ago
Did anyone here ever get a chance to play around with the Squeak VM?
http://www.squeak.org/ http://www.squeak.org/
It's basically "Smalltalk OS", running on any modern machine. Has some really interesting ideas, such as every visible thing (and many invisible things) being inspectable to see the code driving them, which can be changed live.
- frik 12y agoWe used Squeak in a computer science university course. It's a pretty interesting Smalltalk environment. Users have to learn to be careful, as one can destroy the whole environment by modifying environment related Objects. So do regular backups of the whole image, at least for the first few hours! It could be a great playground for kids to get into computer science. The playful colors may help too. Its GUI capabilities are more like Win95. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak I would argue, JavaScript is like a modern successor. A modern browser with its developer console (F12 shortcut) offers a comparable environment to Squeak-light. A more feature-full release of the FirefoxOS/ChromeOS HTML5 shell release for desktop operating systems is probably the next big thing.
- pjmlp 12y agoI kind of agree. The problem is the Frankenstein model the HTML/CSS/JavaScript interaction still offer. HTML5 and the upcoming web components seem to be a step in the right direction, but it is still not quite there.