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Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough

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

32•mpweiher•2h ago

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xkriva11•1h ago

From a conceptual point of view, browsing code is like browsing a fractal. Tools must take this into account.

rwmj•20m ago

Also it'd be nice to have something that is more spatial. A famous memory technique is remembering where things are in space[1], but I've never seen a code browser that works spatially. (I have no idea how to actually do this.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

xkriva11•9m ago

The paper printouts on the table are a kind of simple spatial browser. Thanks to this, we have UNIX (at least it explains how they were able to create anything at all with just a teletype back then).

jdougan•1h ago

There was a browser that worked on Squeak 3, Whisker, that had some of these attributes. I used it up until it became unsupported. It took a little getting used to as its primary orientation was horizontal, but in the age of widescreen monitors that is an advantage.

Wiki description: https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1993

Archive of its homepage. Has an image of the browser in use. https://web.archive.org/web/20070228113449/http://www.mindsp...

radiowave•1h ago

Yes, Whisker is exactly what came to mind for me as well.

I don't currently use Smalltalk, most of my code is now written (and read) in vscode. The means available for showing the context around the code under consideration (splitting and resizing panes, hunting through lists of tabs, scrolling around) feel pretty crude by comparison.

ivanvoid•7m ago

when i was in uni in 2014 i learned that smalltalk became obsolete, later i went to industry to see that no one use smalltalk(or prolog) and yet on this site ppl bringing up smalltalk every single month, why is that i wonder

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