Esteban LorenzanoMar 4

The Smalltalk System Browser has survived for 40 years.
That’s not an accident: it solves the context problem extremely well.
But the real friction in modern Smalltalk may lie elsewhere: the lack of composition between IDE tools.
Some thoughts ↓

https://blog.lorenzano.eu/smalltalks-browser-unbeatable-yet-not-enough/

#Smalltalk #Pharo #Programming cc @pharoproject

Smalltalk’s Browser: Unbeatable, Yet Not Enough

The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.

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Show threadKirtai 🏳️‍⚧️
@estebanlm @pharoproject
I remember using the Whisker Browser on Squeak many years ago. That was a very different window into the system.
Mar 5 at 1:07amWeb
Show threadEsteban LorenzanoMar 5
@kirtai @pharoproject yes, whisker browser had very good ideas on it, I liked it a lot.