Smalltalk on the XO
The XO is another name for the OLPC - and it looks like some interesting Smalltalk (Squeak) work is going on to more fully integrate Smalltalk into the environment on that system - check out Milan Zimmerman's work to get Smalltalk hooked up to the activity system - meaning, making it possible to build apps that:
- Are developed in Etoys (perhaps more precisely, in the underlying Squeak Smalltalk environment).
- Run in Sugar, allowing interaction with the Datastore.
- Participates in the Sugar environment, that is, can be saved/resumed in the Sugar Journal, can copy/paste onto a Journal.
Sounds pretty cool.