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Honest question: is there any meaningful open source software writt In small talk (any implementation) ?

Pharo would be the practical one, Squeak the less industrial one. Lots of stuff has been implemented with both, enough that you could run a consultancy and build applications for people.

You'd need to be a bit of a Smalltalk nerd though, and be prepared to do most of the work yourself since there aren't that many smalltalkers to recruit from. You'd also be in competition for developers with companies building software for insurance or ERP, and many smalltalkers spent relatively much time in academia so that could affect salary expectations.

> Lots of stuff has been implemented with both

Again, like what ?

Roassal, Seaside, Iceberg, Artefact, Pillar.

Mediagenix's "What's On" ( https://www.mediagenix.tv/whats-on/ ) is written in Small-talk. The main reason is the company's ancestry had strong academic roots, but it worked for them. It's not Open Source, but since there aren't that many successful commercial Small-talk products in the wild I thought I'd mention.

https://wiki.c2.com/?WhatsBeenDoneInSmalltalk

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7nm8u/comment/...

Over time I expect systems died or migrated away from Smalltalk

Absolute mountains. Consider: Ruby is Smalltalk with alternative syntax and core library.

I'm only being a little bit flippant here; the only core language feature in ST that Ruby is missing is thisContext, and most of the things that end developers do with thisContext (continuations, exceptions, and the debugger) are natively supported by the standard library.

Depends what you mean by "meaningful".

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