Last time there was an another great article about Smalltalk called Back to the future for Smalltalk. Looks like a smalltalk back to the game It’s maybe the same history like a Ruby, today Ruby is really popular because DHH created Rails. But in Smalltalk we have Seaside which is also outstanding. Im generally a Ruby programmer, now im working with Squeak. I just wanna try how productive could I be with Seaside. Today I was a little worry about generally Squeak performance because there are many tests where people said “Ohh no ohh no, its so slow in this hello world test”. But after that I realized how long i was working with Ruby and Rails, and i’ve never had problems with performance at all. What is more Smalltalk is even faster than Ruby. So for me more important is how productive these frameworks are (and both are so efficient) than thousand extremelny weird speed tests. In one test someone said that Java is so cool, it’s so fancy and generally great because it’s faster than Ruby and Smalltalk. But I don’t care about performance if i must write thousands lines of Java code which displays simple “hello world”, I can do the same in one line here.

Here is a short video about comparison Rails and Seaside (rather developing style). Another demonstrates that Seaside is a sever and an IDE in one. But what is the most important I watched Giles Bowkett really interesting presentation about Rails and Seaside and here is it:
Seaside and Rails (The 2007 Goto) from giles goat boy on Vimeo.