>Has this been done before

One example is GemDev - you remotely control Gemstone Smalltalk
with Eclipse tools. [1]

Another example I know of is the OOVM from Lars Bak (Self, then Java HotSpot and who is now working on the V8 Javascript engine for Google).

If I rememver correctly the old OOVM [2] run on small devices and was also driven remotely from Eclipse. It was a restricted Smalltalk (small bytecode set, restrictions on blocks, ...).

Compared to Java development where you build/ compile on a PC and then transfer to the device to test this provided faster cycles since you could work directly on the machine. I think that was the reason they were bought later by Estmertec.

Bye
T.

[1] http://astares.blogspot.com/2010/01/gemdev-ide-smalltalk-in-eclipse.html
[2] http://astares.blogspot.com/2004/12/oovmosvm.html
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