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by ElFitz 1055 days ago
What about Smalltalk?

I don’t recall the specifics, but I remember someone mentioning it having some impressive debugging capabilities on hn.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100708

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905215

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33725141

For those willing to sift through the comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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SmallTalk was so visionary. Someone needs to do a modern take on it.
The original Dart language designers gave Dart Smalltalk semantics with JavaScript syntax. But Dart’s users rebelled and forced Dart to adopt a more compile-time-type-checked type system.

Some of the original Dart designers have developed a new language Toit that is Smalltalk-like: https://toit.io/company/about

And previously Resilient Smalltalk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27353255

There's Pharo, which I understand to be a spiritual successor.

https://pharo.org/features

https://mooc.pharo.org/

There’s Objective-S https://objective.st/Language