Holy Squeakin' JavaScript, BatDan!

The worlds of Squeak and JavaScript collided in the mind of Smalltalk genius Dan Ingalls and produced the most amazing development platform I've seen in years and years: Live Kernel, an open source "experiment" from Sun Labs.

My good friend Laurence Rozier of The Meshverse Journal fame pointed me at this new project. It's truly amazing.

All Dan did was to take the brilliant direct-manipulation paradigm and class architecture of Morphic (which originated in the vastly intriguing world of the programming language called Self and then morphed [if you'll pardon the expression] into Squeak Smalltalk) and implement it in pure JavaScript! Wowza!

The tutorial alone is amazing. Even if you're not a programmer, even if you have no idea what Morphic or Squeak or Self are, you should check it out. The impact of this could be to the Web what Adobe's AIR promises to be on the desktop.

It is a fun time to be alive in the Meshverse!