If you had an equivalent Cheat Sheet for other programming languages (no programs or opinions), which language would look best?
This cheatsheet is syntactic, both have very little syntax. You can famously exercise all of Smalltalk's syntax on half a postcard: https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/1*Aa0AEoUgjZov8yrgdplsIg.pn...
(the example doesn't feature primitives calls, not because they don't fit — a primitive call would be <primitive: xxx> — but because their use case is extremely specific to implementing a system).
On the one hand they usually have non-normal evaluation and custom mini-languages, on the other so do most macros otherwise you'd just use a function.
But yeah, these are the sort of languages I think of as "simple": small languages which reach "smallness" by giving access to a limited set of extremely powerful constructs.
Indeed but they're all on the postcard above (true, false, nil, super and self).
Smalltalk's closest thing to built-in special forms would be primitives but they have a generic "shape" and they're pretty much always used as implementation details for the "normal" messages which system users interact with.
That's one of the things I really loved when working in Smalltalk: the language gives you all of the building blocks necessary to build more or less then entire standard library, which makes it extremely simple to implement custom control structures for your application. That, and the fact that you're programming directly in your running application of course.