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by stefanu 4515 days ago
StepTalk is another Smalltalk-ObjectiveC legacy framework, originally meant for Smalltalk-like scripting of ObjectiveC apps/tools. It was built for GNUstep but worked on early versions of Cocoa as well: https://github.com/stiivi/StepTalk. It is no longer maintained, therefore it might need a little bit of refreshment.

It is light-weight SmallTalk interpreter on top of ObjectiveC objects. See the examples for better idea of what it does: https://github.com/Stiivi/StepTalk/tree/master/Examples
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mpweiher 4515 days ago
Hi Stefan!

StepTalk was and is definitely a great addition, and I think the more we have of these the more likely it is that we will finally get to program in something better than we have now.

Maybe it's an idea whose time has finally come :-)

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stefanu 4515 days ago
Thanks Marcel. Nice work with Objective Smalltalk too.

Irony is that at that time the Smalltalk people didn't see the advantages of frameworks like StepTalk. I got a few "Why don't you just use Smalltalk?" questions on ESUG conference in 2003 – on one hand they were not happy that Smalltalk use was a bit declining (or at least not thriving, compared to other languages/environments), but didn't wanted to see a compromise solution. Only the pure Smalltalk way was the proper way.

> Maybe it's an idea whose time has finally come :-)

... where web == one large distributed Smalltalk image? I'm all for that! ;-)

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