> One of the differences, though, is that these things were mostly highly responsive, because they were bloat-free.
That's not my recollection of the Smalltalk IDE at all. I especially remember how selecting was crazy slow: press down the button, move the mouse to the end of the line and the selection takes two seconds to catch up with the cursor.
> That's not my recollection of the Smalltalk IDE at all.
Which one and from what time period? My experience was mostly with VisualWorks. Even just with that, there are variations. Going from version 3.* to 5i was actually a step down because of hastily released stuff from a company in turmoil. Also, lots of open source/free implementations started behind the curve in terms of technology. (Still doing bytecode interpretation instead of JIT.)
That's not my recollection of the Smalltalk IDE at all. I especially remember how selecting was crazy slow: press down the button, move the mouse to the end of the line and the selection takes two seconds to catch up with the cursor.