The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak

• seaside

  2 497 8.9 Smalltalk

  The framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk.

  

I have actually used Squeak in production for a simple web app when I was freelancing. I used https://github.com/seasidest/seaside as framework which is still going strong.

Sure that was like 10 year ago but the App is long gone but I can totally see the use for Pharo/Squeak in a green field project even today. The parts are all there. It is super easy to get started, you download an image and have an whole development system set up. No setting up the tooling, no hunting for extensions for you IDE, nope the language already comes with an IDE that is superior to anything your are likely to have ever seen.

• tk_inspect

  1 4 0.0 Ruby

  A Ruby gem for UI introspection, in the spirit of SmallTalk browser

Ruby, the language, is almost as flexible and dynamic as Smalltalk. It's just that it didn't come with an integrated graphical environment like Smalltalk.

For a glimpse of "what is possible", take a look at TkInspect (1), a set of gems that I'm working on that provide some of the goodies of that GUI, like an interactive, graphical console, a live inspector, a class browser or turtle graphics.

At the moment it's not more than a toy, but it does definitely show what can be done.

(1) https://github.com/josepegea/tk_inspect

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