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Unfortunately, modern smalltalk environments (pharo, squeak) are terrible compared to modern Common Lisp implementations. The libraries are not there, monticello doesn't even support HTTPS last I checked, nevermind cryptographic signatures, they don't support concurrency via native OS threads, the FFIs are a joke (just take a look at pharo), the graphical environments are laughable (pharo and squeak look like total crap on OSX retina machines, the font rendering gives you headaches, yes it's THAT bad), performance is abysmal, I could go on for ages... Common Lisp on the other hand has multiple mature opensource native code compilers (SBCL and CCL) that support multiple platforms, concurrency via OS threads, have amazing foreign function interfaces, performance that is close to C, optional paid support for the opensource implementations, a development environment that is more traditional but also lets you program 100% interactively from within the image without compromising when it comes to interfacing with traditional version control, also support snapshots and so on. Smalltalk is more "dynamic" than Common Lisp and is also better (in theory)
when it comes to interactive development. But in practice, Pharo and Squeak are stuck in the 90s at best and compromise in areas that today are of paramount importance. Common Lisp doesn't and gives you all the options. |