What do you think is a good IDE for learning SmallTalk? I'll only be using it as a hobby, so it has to be free.
Smalltalk is still very relevant. It's an excellent instructional language for teaching programming to people who have no technical background. It's a superlative prototyping language for startups. It's an industrial-strength enterprise language used by businesses both big and small all around the globe.
Is Smalltalk worth learning in 2020? Yes, it is worth learning in 2020 because it is still very relevant. The universal consensus is that Smalltalk is the best OOP language. It was the first programming language to promote OOP back in the 1980s.
Who uses Smalltalk? 41 companies reportedly use Smalltalk in their tech stacks, including CrowdStrike, ServiceTitan, and Broadcom.
Smalltalk is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language that incorporates dynamic runtime typing methodology and maneuverability.
You should also consider Pharo. Pharo is a fork of Squeak. Their goals are:
a clean and lean open-source Smalltalk platform, derived from Squeak
the obvious choice for professional Smalltalk development
an emerging platform to help people invent the future
Whether it is Squeak or Pharo, there is a large, active and supportive community.
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