Really hard to collaborate with it. How do we share code between our images? I think this was largely solved later, but...
Similarly, how do you ship code to a customer? Later there were tools developed to pare down images, but my first introduction to Smalltalk was via a breakout game on an Alto my division at NBS had been loaned. You could start the game and then drop into the Smalltalk-76 environment with ^C or something like that and start mucking around with code. Pretty much all of Smalltalk had to come along with what you shipped.
Performance sucked for a long, long time. One of my favorite books is "Smalltalk 80: Bits of History, Words of Advice" which describes the porting efforts of several teams at Tektronix, Apple and so forth, and their efforts to get anything running, followed by what it took to get acceptable performance.
Smalltalk is my favorite language that I will never be able to do real work in. It's a shame.
Similarly, how do you ship code to a customer? Later there were tools developed to pare down images, but my first introduction to Smalltalk was via a breakout game on an Alto my division at NBS had been loaned. You could start the game and then drop into the Smalltalk-76 environment with ^C or something like that and start mucking around with code. Pretty much all of Smalltalk had to come along with what you shipped.
Performance sucked for a long, long time. One of my favorite books is "Smalltalk 80: Bits of History, Words of Advice" which describes the porting efforts of several teams at Tektronix, Apple and so forth, and their efforts to get anything running, followed by what it took to get acceptable performance.
Smalltalk is my favorite language that I will never be able to do real work in. It's a shame.