On 12/10/2020 18:12, Phil B wrote:
> Douglas,
>
> It's always good to see historically significant software preserved 
> rather than bit rotting in darkness.  It's probably not going to have 
> nearly the impact Squeak did in the open source world since the Lisp 
> world already has an embarrassment of good implementations (distinct 
> implementations rather than dialects.  See CCL, which is a direct 
> descendant of MCL, for example) where Squeak basically had to 
> introduce/resurrect Smalltalk in the open source world.  With SLIME 
> they've already kinda, sorta stolen some of the key concepts of the 
> Lisp workstation UIs.  Though this source drop may inspire some deeper 
> copying on the UI front... we'll see.


Agreed. However, I think Medley is particularly interesting; it has some 
features and attributes that even Genera didn't have and isn't subject 
to the limitations of Emacs. It's also not an emulation like 
LambdaDelta, rather using a bytecode VM similar to Squeak. It may not 
make a big impact but I expect it will get a bunch of extremely 
dedicated fans.


And, of course, it has a Smalltalk feel which is appealing :)