Ask HN: Examples of elegant, non-trivial Smalltalk?

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10 years ago

I've been on a bit of a Smalltalk / Squeak / message-passing OOP deep-dive as of late and was looking for pointers to good Smalltalk codebases to study that are considered particularly elegant and compact.

I'm especially struck at the moment by what seems to me to be a bit of a contradiction. In this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboI_1WJUlM) from COFES, there's a clear push for a kind of simplicity and elegance that seems very opposite to the common criticisms I've seen of OOP, that it too easily results in overly-complex software (one Reddit comment I stumbled across from someone that seemed to have experience working on commercial Smalltalk applications said Smalltalk encourages an explosion of complexity). I'm keen to look at some good counter-examples.

So, Smalltalkers on HN, what's your favorite Smalltalk-family code and why?

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