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Comment by ErikCorry

Smalltalk is a major influence on Toit and Ruby.

Toit has blocks (lightweight closures), single inheritance, everything-is-an-object (no primitive types).

Like Smalltalk the Toit VM is dynamically typed, but unlike classic Smalltalk there are optional types and they are checked at compile time and run time if you choose to use them.

The syntax is not much like Smalltalk though, and development is with conventional source files and compilation, not image based like Smalltalk and Self.

(In Self the editor was inside the VM and you saved your work by snapshotting the entire VM state which is superficially attractive but makes it really hard to collaborate and use version control.)

parent ErikCorry 4 years ago

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