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Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough

by Esteban Lorenzano blog.lorenzano.eu published 2026-03-046 min read

The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.

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