Squeak

Jul 20, 2023

Full Smalltalk 80 with portability to Unix, Mac, and Windows

Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change; it includes among other things * a rapid-turn-around Smalltalk-80 compiler, * a caching-JIT run-time virtual machine with full source in Smalltalk, * large class libraries with portable data and GUI models, and * an integrated development environment with powerful coding tools and GUI construction tools.

Squeak was developed at Apple Labs, Walt Disney and has been ported to a variety of computers including most flavors of UNIX and Windows. Compared to other Smalltalk systems, Squeak has 4 important features * Portability to Mac, Windows, WinCE, and many flavors of UNIX; * Speed it uses native C for compute-intensive code; * Price free, including all source code and the right to distribute applications!; and * Sophistication full Smalltalk-80 language, libraries, and tools.

Squeak comes under an open source license, meaning that you can download and use it for free.



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