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Anyone here shipping a Smalltalk built application these days? I had fun playing with Pharo and Squeak, but in terms of shipping desktop apps to clients I don't know how it could be done with Smalltalk. Maybe Cincom is the only game in town, not sure. Anyone has a story to tell?

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Check out our (web based) product at https://ag5.com . We’ve built it with VisualWorks Smalltalk among other tools.

Every year we ask ourselves if we should be using such an niche tool but somehow almost every new employee at our company gets hooked on smalltalk. So it now has become our secret superpower.

Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu) on millions of Raspberry Pis.

It looks to me like only Scratch 1.4 is written in Squeak. Scratch 2 is written in ActionScript, and Scratch 3 in JavaScript.

Yeah. Looks like that changed after Raspian Jessie. Still, that shipped on a lot of Pis.

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