Rust is Software's Salvation

Re:Rust is Software's Salvation by coldtea on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:33AM (#13283486)

>Not always. Pry debugging Ruby can be pretty awesome but still often leaves a lot to be desired compared to the VisualWorks Smalltalk debugger+environment. Then there's the One Laptop Per Child project. How many developers were trying to recreate things that already existed in Smalltalk?

How many Smalltalks were not closed source and with commercial IDEs and toolsets?

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Re:Rust is Software's Salvation by stcredzero on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:49AM (#13284596)

Squeak. That would've been enough. Smalltalk doesn't have an IDE in the traditional sense. The browser is a very small, thin app on top of the meta level and libraries.

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Re:Rust is Software's Salvation by coldtea on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:50AM (#13284603)

Squeak only got viable a decade or so after the demise of commercial Smalltalks.

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Re:Rust is Software's Salvation by pjmlp on Monday January 02, 2017 @05:22AM (#13300313)

Back in those days we just bought our tools.

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