self

Making the world safe for objects

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Making the world safe for objects

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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cmrdporcupine·Oct 25, 2025

These days the entire runtime is open source and easy to get Decent readable C++, too. With a modern CMake build, the whole bit. https://github.com/russellallen/self If only it had been made open source 25, 30 years ago when I was really excited about this stuff. I have no idea why they kept it locked up inside Sun for so long.

In An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf]

neilv·Oct 12, 2022

Self was great in multiple ways, and worth reading up on and playing with. Looks like distributions are at: https://selflanguage.org/ and repo at: https://github.com/russellallen/self Java and many other languages (JIT), Squeak (morphs worlds), and JavaScript (class-less prototype object system), later got some of the Self magic. But I think Self was where I first used all of those.

In A Little Smalltalk (1987)

russellallen·Oct 29, 2013

Self the system still exists - this isn't just archeology. The website is at http://selflanguage.org and the Git sources at http://github.com/russellallen/self The VM compiles on recent OS X and x86 Linux and it's pretty fun to play with. There is something about the underlying simplicity of the object model and the immediacy and concreteness of the system which makes programming in it for me unlike other programming languages, even after all this time. I should do up a new release though - the downloadable binaries are a few years old now.

In Self: the movie