Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev

I recently started looking into what's new with Pharo Smalltalk and associated projects since last I had a look... There are many that are underrated, like the new(ish) cog virtual machine: https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm Cuis Smalltalk: https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev SquakJS: https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/SqueakJS and it's inspiration, lively: https://github.com/LivelyKernel/LivelyKernel A vr community tool/framework for the web in the spirit of open croquet / openqwaq: https://github.com/virtual-world-framework/vwf And last, but not least: https://github.com/moosetechnology/Moose "Moose is an extensive platform for software and data analysis. Moose is an open source software. It was started at the Software Composition Group from University of Bern in 1996, and is currently contributed to and

The best example that I can suggest is to look at the STEPS project (i.e. what Alan was referring to in the talk): http://tinlizzie.org/updates/exploratory/packages and their papers: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php. There have also been a couple of attempts to reduce Smalltalk back to the key concepts it was based on with projects such as Cuis: https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev In general though, yes the Reddit comment you came across is probably a fair description of what you're likely to run into in the wild (commercial or open source) since most projects tend to prioritize the short term desires/needs at the expense of the long term. As it's often used, Smalltalk will just get them to the unmanageable mess faster. No environment/language/tool can prevent someone from doing silly things with it despite how hard t