In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, and it hasn’t spread as well as some others. But it was the first OO language many people encountered, and it influenced many other languages you’ve probably seen.
Developed at the famed Xerox PARC, it also introduced many people to the “model/view/controller” (MVC) architecture. Cuis Smalltalk is a free and portable modern Smalltalk-80 environment. It replaces the traditional MVC framework with Morphic, but otherwise, it would be very familiar to someone who used Smalltalk in the 1990s.
The project’s goal is to stay simple at the core, although you can add complexity via packages. The software has been around for a while, but it is on a rolling release model, so the install page suggests you clone the Git repo.
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