[squeak-dev] what is holding back Smalltalk?

Alan Grimes agrimes at speakeasy.net
Fri Nov 21 02:22:45 UTC 2008


> For me the biggest issue has been trying to run my code from outside
> Squeak. This includes running Squeak headless to do something
> script-like and configuring a GUI application to run in a way that
> doesn't require the user to know they are running Squeak. Both of these
> are supposedly possible, but very difficult to get right.

1. The VM, it's weak, no multithreading, few IO options.

2. The restriction to image based smalltalk instead of the ability to
run discreet programs...

Image based smalltalk is awesome but it makes it difficult to interface
smalltalk code with external systems.



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