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Re:The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [v... by travisgriggs on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:50AM (#28339008)
Interesting. I’m a fan of Gilads work, and have a strong admiration for Lars Bak who were both involved in 1.0. I followed it cursorily from time to time and thought it looked intriguing. I had a number of colleagues from the Smalltalk industry that went to work on it.

They’ve all left now (I don’t know what Lars’ involvement is anymore?).

But I was curious about Dart for a cross platform app and learned Dart 2.0 and was wholeheartedly let down. I just felt like I was staring at a Java dialect. The “sanctioned” tutorial I watched introduced classes as a “way of organizing code” which I guess could abstractly be said to be true, but IMO misses the mark entirely.

Anyway, I found Dart 2.0 to be very uninteresting. Very safe and traditional and boring. Maybe I need to relook closer to try and see what you’re seeing that I did not.

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Re:The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [v... by agumonkey on Saturday August 28, 2021 @01:26PM (#28339773)
don't read too much into what I said, I barely read the async/concurrent primitives they made, it felt different and interesting. I came with the impression that it would be a cuter java (like you somehow) but these bits caught my brain by surprise.
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Re:The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [v... by igouy on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:53AM (#28347175)
> … but IMO misses the mark entirely.

because…?

for example…?

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