Squeak 6.1 'Vanessa' Released: A New Tree Browser and the Return of Objectland
Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes
Squeak 6.1, named in memory of Vanessa Freudenberg, arrives four years after the last release, merging over 1,700 patches and 9,000 method changes. Highlights include a revamped tree browser, the return of Objectland (the 'Worlds of Squeak'), kernel improvements for process scheduling and class reshaping, and numerous UI enhancements. The release notes are interactive, with links to code and examples that run in a browser-based Smalltalk VM.
Phew, what a release! Since the last release 4 years ago, we have merged 1700+ patches with 9000+ method changes.
- avaer
Just like learning Lisp will make you rethink programming languages, and learning Erlang will make you understand the true power of concurrency: learning Smalltalk will make you understand what "object oriented" actually means.
I haven't used Squeak since college but I'm glad it was part of the cirriculum.
Btw, almost all of Javascript's good parts come from Smalltalk.
- taolson
Congrats to the Squeak 6.1 team! I was an early contributor to Squeak from when Alan Kay's group was at Apple (I see that SameGame, the first game implemented in Morphic is still in the image), and still enjoy following the progress of Squeak and all of its spinoffs.
- Decabytes
one thing I love about Smalltalk is being able to inspect the code as it's running. Especially from the GUI. You can just be like Oh I wonder where the code for this button is from, inspect it, and it takes you right to the code. It's a shame we can't have this level of introspection without negative performance implications.
- davexunit
What are the best books/papers/blog posts to learn about Morphic's architecture? I'm not a user of any Smalltalk implementation but I'd like to learn more as the Smalltalk approach to UI is very interesting.
- brabel
How does this compare to Glamorous Toolkit[1]?
- mikeegg1
I remember enjoying Smalltalk.
- broswell
I just downloaded on Windows 11. My antivirus (Symantec Endpoint Protection) did not like it and erased the executable. I reinstalled and got it working.
Question? Does this work with Etoys? If so, how? I tried following various directions online without success. Thanks!
- atemerev
And after all these years, still no fixes for high-DPI displays. The UI is still pixely and slow. Perhaps I should take Fable and try myself, this was the only bug I cared about and it is not solved after 10 years at least.