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Smalltalk runtime in the browser

by andreiursan on 8/15/13, 7:14 AM with 33 comments

• by girvo on 8/15/13, 8:01 AM

  Holy heck that is cool.

  I begin to wonder if this is the way a Smalltalk or Lisp-machine-like live environments can be resurrected for 2013?

  I mean, Javascript and the Browser are somewhat similar, but this takes it to another level.

• by e12e on 8/15/13, 8:22 AM

  Also take a look at:

    http://http://lively-kernel.org/
  

  One noteable feature is save-via-webdav.

• by gosub on 8/15/13, 10:24 AM

  This is the "lisp machine" equivalent:

  http://alex.nisnevich.com/ecmachine/

• by andreiursan on 8/15/13, 7:35 AM

  finally, an easy way to learn smalltalk http://amber-lang.net/learn.html

• by bionerd on 8/15/13, 10:53 AM

  So many awesome things to try out and so little time...

  I'm really excited to see such great ideas of the past being resurrected like that. Things like Lisp machines and Smalltalk environment are still revolutionary and have much to contribute to the technology of the present.

  It's a shame really that they almost died out. I could only guess what were the reasons for that but it's great to see efforts trying to bring them back to the future where they belong.

• by dysoco on 8/15/13, 4:33 PM

  Curious considering my comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6214917

• by methehack on 8/15/13, 5:03 PM

  If this is solid, would be cool to see firebase (or similar) integration.