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I have been experimenting with ES6 and Chrome Browser. Having DevTools Console open and directly manipulating the environment entirely through the console. It works. What it lacks is the nice tooling of Smalltalk, but that could be implemented through a series of bootstrapping steps.

I have also played with Amber and SqueakJS. Interesting possibilities.

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I was also blown away by Google Chrome's client-side JavaScript environment (though Safari's environment is good for me, too). I started getting into web development a year ago when I placed on a web-based project; I came from a background where I was doing systems programming in C. I appreciate the power of having a REPL and great graphical tools whenever I'm doing client-side web development. I wish the tools on the server side were as sophisticated; the debugging environment for Node.js is spartan compared to what's available in the browser.

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