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  • Can someone give me some advice on what to use as a beginner? Pharo? Squeak? Common Lisp?

    I just want to understand how this whole thing works and see how I can use it.

    by pkphilip
  • How does this compare to Glamorous Toolkit[1]?

    [1] https://gtoolkit.com/

    by brabel
  • I've been tempted to learn this so I could port my Pips solver to it, solely because PipSqueak would be a good name.
    by tzs
  • What are the best books/papers/blog posts to learn about Morphic's architecture? I'm not a user of any Smalltalk implementation but I'd like to learn more as the Smalltalk approach to UI is very interesting.
    by davexunit
  • one thing I love about Smalltalk is being able to inspect the code as it's running. Especially from the GUI. You can just be like Oh I wonder where the code for this button is from, inspect it, and it takes you right to the code. It's a shame we can't have this level of introspection without negative performance implications.
    by Decabytes
  • And after all these years, still no fixes for high-DPI displays. The UI is still pixely and slow. Perhaps I should take Fable and try myself, this was the only bug I cared about and it is not solved after 10 years at least.
    by atemerev
  • Congrats to the Squeak 6.1 team! I was an early contributor to Squeak from when Alan Kay's group was at Apple (I see that SameGame, the first game implemented in Morphic is still in the image), and still enjoy following the progress of Squeak and all of its spinoffs.
    by taolson
  • Just like learning Lisp will make you rethink programming languages, and learning Erlang will make you understand the true power of concurrency: learning Smalltalk will make you understand what "object oriented" actually means.

    I haven't used Squeak since college but I'm glad it was part of the cirriculum.

    Btw, almost all of Javascript's good parts come from Smalltalk.

    by avaer

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