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Smalltalk (as a language/environment) fits really nicely with 'the Cloud'. It already runs in its own VM as the normal way of distributing applications, so pro

Smalltalk (as a language/environment) fits really nicely with 'the Cloud'. It already runs in its own VM as the normal way of distributing applications, so provisioning should be cake... I've never heard of Seaside or AIDAweb, before, though. Anyone used Smalltalk for production?

cwp 12y ago
Yup, although not lately. DabbleDB was (mostly) implemented in Smalltalk, until it was acquired by Twitter. I would really like to see a version of the Smalltalk VM that runs directly on Xen. That way you could bundle a Smalltalk image with the VM as an AMI, and launch it as an EC2 instance. Smalltalk has long suffered for not integrating well with the "native" operating system on desktop machines, because deep down it really wants to be the OS for a Xerox Alto. Running in the cloud makes utter sense for Smalltalk.