Smalltalk in a DLL? - [4:04 PM]

James Robertson: "Make it possible to ship Smalltalk as a DLL" - I think that would be a wonderful idea! Microsoft, as far as I know, has no answer for scripting inside applications. VBA is all but dead. So, if you had the entire Smalltalk environment as a DLL, and you could expose functionality to the runtime, you'd have a best of breed scripting language. This is something the Python guys got right, but the Ruby crowd is behind.

ILM has been using Python for years in their production pipeline, not only standalone, but embedded in other applications. Having a powerful language that's easy to use is important to customizing destkop tools.

James, I think it's a great idea.

Labels: Development, Smalltalk