Comment by goodthink
6 hours ago
If you love the keyword syntax of Smalltalk, the reflectivity, the incremental compilation, live debugging in the environment, check out https://newspeaklanguage.org for theSmalltalk experience in the web browser.
This is my favorite video by Newspeak's creator Gilad Bracha: https://youtu.be/BDwlEJGP3Mk?si=Z0ud1yRqIjVvT4oO
That talk is fantastic! Just a note for anyone who's interested in Newspeak, it's more of a spiritual successor than a direct descendant of smalltalk (in a good way imo). It has some really slick features like:
* No global import/export namespace (all imports are dependency injected, meaning capability based security is already baked in)
* Nested classes instead of modules
* No variable assignment (everything is a method call)
* Mixins instead of inheritance
* Synchronization and code updates as near primitives
* Support for foreign objects through aliens and proxies, and foreign code can call newspeak objects through expats
* A native serialization to file format
* support for multiple overlapping type systems