Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video]

Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by pjmlp on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:50PM (#39622098)

The reason is called Java, and having all key Smalltalk vendors pivoting into Java.

Smalltalk was the ".NET" of OS/2, and Visual Age for Smalltalk code browser still lives on Eclipse.

Then there are those Objective-C and Ruby developers still around, heavily influenced from Smalltalk.

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Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by incanus77 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:26PM (#39624439)

I recently got back into Objective-C (first did in 2002) doing some (for hire) framework work on an app that was built in it originally. And it's very refreshing! I've done a lot of C in between then and now, and I almost have to keep reminding myself that it's C under the hood, really.

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Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by timbit42 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:51PM (#39736370)

Is there a Smalltalk that runs on the JVM?

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Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by timrowledge on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:55PM (#39746900)

Not that I've read of, but Vanessa Freudenberg created SqueakJS; a javascript system that can run (pretty much) any Squeak based image in your browser. See https://squeak.js.org/run/

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Re:Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 21, 2024 [video] by igouy on Monday March 18, 2024 @01:02PM (#39746978)

https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak

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