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by skeledrew 337 days ago
Nice set of features you have here, very similar to Smalltalk (particularly Pharo) ideals. Actually I'm also actively working on a Pharo VM simulator so I can ultimately get GToolkit[0], which I really like and is based on it, running in Python. Nothing published yet though, but can definitely get in touch via your project.

[0] https://gtoolkit.com/

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So far it's just a subset of what's supported by SLIME for common lisp, and I've heard the smalltalk community emphasizes interactive development tooling even more so than the lisp folks. I've seen some of the gtoolkit videos and it's really impressive what such a small group of people have built, I'll definitely study it more seriously for ideas for my python environment once I've got the basics finished. I even tried gtoolkit very briefly but got stuck just trying to show all keyboard shortcuts in a given context and add new ones, but that was years ago and a quick search says Pharo's redone it's shortcut system since then.