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This work has opened up many possibilities over the years - who would have thought that https://github.com/ErikOnBike/CodeParadise/blob/master/READM... was possible? Running a tiny image in the browser courtesy of SqueakJS is viable and very productive.

I wonder if https://shoelace.style/ is what @ch33zer is looking for? Web components often seem overlooked in this crazy dash complicated js frameworks.

I too recall early encounters with Smalltalk (albeit 1989), and also recall that feeling of missing grep - and it was only years later that I realised I had missed a hugely important point... possibly the most important point. Smalltalk is so elegant, malleable and simple that it was only 5 lines of code to implement a more interactive grep... d’oh. Why didn’t I think of it at the time? Too cocky?

Code completion was trivial to implement even back then, particularly as code is an object like anything else. Sometimes you miss the obvious and hold yourself back.

Sadly the industry hasn’t innovated much since PARC, those much mailigned Smalltalk images are now called Docker ;)