Dolphin Smalltalk - so long and thanks for all the fish.
So long and thanks for all the fish - that's what the Dolphin's told us in the Hitchhikers Guide, however it's quite what Object Arts have told us regarding the decision to discontinue the Dolphin Smalltalk product:
It is with great regret and more than a touch of sadness that I have to announce that Blair and I have made the decision to stop selling and developing Dolphin Smalltalk. We will continue to distribute the free version of Dolphin X6 indefinitely but, as from today, we will not be selling the Professional version. Some limited support will remain in place for existing users of X6 but there will not be a future major release of Dolphin for .net (or Mac or Linux).
I started using Dolphin a few years ago when I needed to work on a small windows application and its a shame to see it come to an end.
Some other posts on the topic:
- Dolphin Smalltalk Discontinued - David Buck
- Dolphin is over - James Robertson
- Sad Smalltalk News - Troy Brumley
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Comments (2)
How does Squeak compare to Dolphin?
Hey Nic - from what I've used of them both - the main 'visual' difference is that Dolphin provided a native Win32 user interface (the system itself was Win32 only) and allowed you to write native looking applications which compiled down to VERY small .exe files. Squeak is pure smalltalk providing cross-platform execution and its own 'custom' user interface system which I've never quite understood fully (admittedly I've never really look at it from a design perspective). Squeak applications run purely in the image mode like more traditional Smalltalks.
Personally I found squeak much nicer to work in than Dolphin with its built in version control system and package repository (which Dolphin sadly lacked).