Dan Ingalls announced on the squeak-dev mailing list that Sun Labs has published Lively Kernel.
Looks like they have implemented a small computing kernel for the browser in JavaScript and ported Squeaks Morphic on top of it.
Here is a first screenshot impression (click on image to enlarge):
Based on the tradition of Smalltalk and Squeak it also includes the IDE:
Would be interesting what could be possible if this is combined with the Seaside web framework on the server side.
you might want to take a look at JNEXT (http://jnext.org) which was also recently released
ReplyDeleteMy bet is that Javascript is going to play an even stronger role in the future