This week David, Michael, and I spoke to Dan Heidinga of IBM about his work on Smalltalk on Eclipse - you can hear his full talk at Smalltalk Solutions; here's the abstract:

Eclipse had its start as a re-implementation of the VisualAge IDE so it's fitting that we bring Smalltalk to Eclipse in the form of the Smalltalk Development Tools (STDT). Based on VisualAge for Smalltalk (aka ENVY/Smalltalk), STDT seeks to bring a Smalltalk runtime into Eclipse.

This talk will provide an overview of the effort to bring Smalltalk to Eclipse, our goals and aspirations, and the current status of the Smalltalk Development Tools. We will present our future plans for STDT, including a discussion of some of the challenges in implementing a Smalltalk IDE in a Java-based platform.

"Imagine, putting source code in files! How quaint." -- Kent Beck

It was a fun talk - we also talked briefly about the discussion going on between Squeak developers and Debian folks about getting EToys into Debian.

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