st-enthusiast

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   by st-enthusiast 11y ago

   It should. There is even an install script for it. But I believe the development shifted to Pharo as the primary platform.
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   by st-enthusiast 11y ago

   No, I do not work on it, but I've followed it from a distance.
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   by st-enthusiast 11y ago

   It's used by Etoile, at least. The problem with GNU Smalltalk is lack of traction (developers, users) and incompatibility with Pharo/Squeak. Pharo is the open source Smalltalk with the most traction at this point. There are also l
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   by st-enthusiast 11y ago

   I prefer the IDE to an editor because I don't have to type as much boilerplate. For example, to create a class I just fill out a class template and accept, and to add a method I just type code in the method pane and accept. The IDE is
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   by st-enthusiast 11y ago

   The people interested in that sort of thing left for Pharo long ago. The Pharo platform seems much more practically-minded, and the website has some case studies of businesses built using it: http://pharo.org/success
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   by st-enthusiast 11y ago

   I remember Squeak used to have a bunch of different window colors for different tools, which always made Squeak look like a toy unfit for serious work. I downloaded the latest, and now there seems to be uniformity in the UI, with a single w