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>> I ended up using Smalltalk for my startup.

I'm getting ready to start a new project with a significant GUI forms component. I wanted to go with Clojure, but it still seems a little rough around the edges. So I'm leaning towards Visualworks Smalltalk, in part because it seems like a great language to prototype in and partly because the OOP aspect fits so well with GUIs.

I'm curious: did you consider Clojure? Would you mind elaborating on why you went with Smalltalk? given the number of Lispers on this site, the answer might be of broad interest.



"Visualworks Smalltalk,"

Doesn't VW have a "pay us x % of your revenue forever" license (http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?con...)?

I am curious as to why any startup would want to accept these terms.


Well, I'm not thrilled about it. But getting something out the door is the key. Enjoying the development experience is #2. I can live with a 6% vig for the Cincom guys.


Out of curiosity, have you checked out Pharo? It just seems nuts to me to agree to give away such a huge percentage of revenue just for your development stack.


I hadn't heard of Pharo before. Thanks for the link. It looks like it might be interesting and I'll keep an eye in it.


It sounds like your building a thick client, but in case your building a web app check out: http://www.seaside.st/


Thanks. I have looked at Seaside a bit and it looks impressive. I was impressed at how little code it seems to take to get something going.

My app will work best as a thick client, but I still need a website to sell it.




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