| ▲ | Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80(cuis.st) |
| 59 points by theanonymousone 3 days ago | 10 comments |
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| ▲ | edfsadfer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Same VM as Squeak and Pharo so just as fast but a bit lacking in libs but this is an opportunity to contribute to open source for me. Currently using it to build a mostly static website (with Pocketbase & lighttpd). A good experience all round. |
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| ▲ | ajasmin 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I haven't used these in a long while. Is this a fork? What's Cuis' main selling point compared Squeak and Pharo? | | |
| ▲ | edfsadfer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Cuis is an environment derived from Squeak as I understand it with all the "clutter" removed. So it is really a cut-down Squeak. Just as Pharo was a cut-down Squeak originally. For me it was easier and quicker to get something done in Cuis than in any other Smalltalk (Squeak, Pharo, VA, Dolphin). | |
| ▲ | dialogbox 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It looks like it is a fork started quite a long time ago. https://cuis.st/documentation/explanation/history | |
| ▲ | isr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The history link gives details, but if you want a quick analogy: Pharo & Cuis both forked from squeak at roughly the same time Squeak = Debian Pharo = Arch Cuis = Alpine Cuis has rigorously simplified, so its much easier to explore & understand the system - because there's less of it Cuis's re-engineering of morphic is really quite brilliant. Everything is hardware accelerated vector graphics. EVEN THE FONTS are drawn that way. And they remain crisp even when zoomed (in or out) & rotated. Pharo does have some cool stuff though. I'd love to see fuel (object serialization) & soil (a fully oo database) ported to cuis. And the big one - seaside But its not an either-or situation. 99% 9f what you learn & do in one is applicable to the other. But if you're starting out, I would definitely recommend cuis (not implying that you wouldn't necessarily stick with it) | | |
| ▲ | ssivark 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is the development experience compatible with modern AI-assisted workflows? Coding agents have drastically reduced the entry barrier for playing with software projects, and I can think of some fun ideas for Smalltalk things I've been curious about. |
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| ▲ | ofrzeta 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Totally non-functional argument but the website looks really nice and makes you wanna try it. |
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| ▲ | yje07039 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I hadn’t heard anything about Smalltalk since seeing it used in version 1.4 of Scratch, so it’s a pleasant surprise to come across it again after all this time. |
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| ▲ | chasil 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What most people do not know is that Smalltalk was originally a childrens' teaching language, a peer of Logo, which (I have learned in previous comments) preceded it. "Smalltalk is a purely object-oriented programming language that was originally created in the 1970s for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, but later found use in business." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk |
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| ▲ | sroerick 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This looks cool and beautiful! Ive looked at other Smalltalks and been pretty intimidated. This feels cool and welcoming. |
