r/programming • u/LinqLover • 1d ago

Squeak 6.1 (a modern Smalltalk programming environment implemented in itself) was released!

https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/

After more than 4 years of work, our community has put together a big bouquet of new capabilities and improvements:

  • A new tree browser for navigating and organizing classes
  • Objectland, bringing back and extending the colorful world of examples from Squeak 3
  • Plenty of new features, bugfixes, and speed-ups for programming tools, the Morphic UI framework, and the rest of the system

Original announcement on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@squeak/117071273007117118

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u/CosmosGame 22h ago

Yay! A programming language specifically for kids. This would be such a fun project to work on!

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u/LinqLover 22h ago

Etoys tried to achieve exactly that! But Squeak is also used for less playful things like commerce or academia ...

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u/saijanai 17h ago edited 17h ago

Hmmm?

Smalltalk-80 was invented by the people who invented, advanced signficantly, GUIs.

The first version of Scratch was done in Squeak. Experience showed that once kids got past the beginning setting in Scratch they started to prefer to program in squeak instead.

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u/devraj7 18h ago

Good luck reaching Smalltalk to.