http://www.squeak.org/
Seems to have some advantages such as
# Strongly Typed
# Garbage Collected
# Interpreted
I always hated how difficult it is to debug actionScript, even with third-party libraries and tools. The entire paradigm kind of forces you to have variables with a wide scope (practically 'globals') and that is just a way to let you shoot you in the foot.
Have you heard of this squeak before? The mailing list seems very active:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general
They have a very large wiki (6000 pages):
http://wiki.squeak.org/Squeak
It also seems to be very fast, at least compared to actionScript:
http://www.visoracle.com/squeakfaq/benchmark.html
(unfortunately, that benchmark might be pretty old; no date to be found).
Since it has inherited properties from smalltalk, and the language itself may look a bit like ruby, whereas actionScript looks more like javascript/PHP.
What are your thoughts on this?
Seems to have some advantages such as
# Strongly Typed
# Garbage Collected
# Interpreted
I always hated how difficult it is to debug actionScript, even with third-party libraries and tools. The entire paradigm kind of forces you to have variables with a wide scope (practically 'globals') and that is just a way to let you shoot you in the foot.
Have you heard of this squeak before? The mailing list seems very active:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general
They have a very large wiki (6000 pages):
http://wiki.squeak.org/Squeak
It also seems to be very fast, at least compared to actionScript:
http://www.visoracle.com/squeakfaq/benchmark.html
(unfortunately, that benchmark might be pretty old; no date to be found).
Since it has inherited properties from smalltalk, and the language itself may look a bit like ruby, whereas actionScript looks more like javascript/PHP.
What are your thoughts on this?
