> You can do anything you want in it, it's super flexible, the tooling is great, but almost everything requires you to just write quite a bit more code than you would in Perl, Python, Ruby, JS, etc.

Given that Smalltalk precedes JS by many years: if it is true, then it was not always true.

Given that Smalltalk was early to the GUI WIMP party: if it is true, then it was not always true for GUI WIMP use.