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Dave Anderson of Genify reports on Smalltalk MT use in the simulation industry:

I just came back from boothing at I/ITSEC 2004 (the inter-industry training, simulation and educations conference). This is THE event for the sim community (especially military).

I am happy to report that Smalltalk MT was embedded in several applications showing at the conference. Here are some examples:

1. A collaborative multi-player virtual environment showed off MTs ability to perform fast network requirements.
2. A LIDAR analysis program showed off MTs ability to utilize DirectX 9 and a GPU to do huge amounts of feature extraction analysis from a LIDAR image.
3. Military symbols were being shown in other vendors applications by MT. This is using MTs ability to use SVG (scalable vector graphics) and GDI+.

So while we may not be building whole applications with MT (apart from the development environment of course), we are demonstrating that Smalltalk can be used for what it is very good at - MetaData representation. This content can then be delivered in the form of a DLL or a COM component to other applications (including other Smalltalks).

So next time you see a GIS application, or military application it may be Smalltalk MT inside :-)