> I'm sure you realize that there is full modern UI support in any reasonably up to date Smalltalk implementation
Contained to the VM itself, yes? I've never seen any information on packaging a GUI and making it presentable to a user. For example, what if I want to style/brand it to not look like Pharo or a smalltalk VM? How limited am I with that?
> If you mean accessing data from the filesystem, yes that can be done as well.
How? I've never seen it explained in a book, but I could easily have missed it. That's more of what I'm talking about though. For example, how do I read / parse a CSV for the computer? Or better yet, download a CSV from the internet and then parse it.
> And guess what, there is even network support.
I'm aware of this because I know there's a web framework. I think there's an entire book on this for Pharo.
Can you test it in Microsoft's new Edge browser based on Chromium? I'm very curious about that. (I don't know how to test such a thing myself, sorry :S)
Contained to the VM itself, yes? I've never seen any information on packaging a GUI and making it presentable to a user. For example, what if I want to style/brand it to not look like Pharo or a smalltalk VM? How limited am I with that?
> If you mean accessing data from the filesystem, yes that can be done as well.
How? I've never seen it explained in a book, but I could easily have missed it. That's more of what I'm talking about though. For example, how do I read / parse a CSV for the computer? Or better yet, download a CSV from the internet and then parse it.
> And guess what, there is even network support.
I'm aware of this because I know there's a web framework. I think there's an entire book on this for Pharo.