[cosarara97]

This is kind of an offtopic question, but regardless: Is there any application written in smalltalk in the debian repository? (or any other linux distro)

[monocasa]

The only people I've heard of using Smalltalk at all other than in dogfood situations are people using Gemstone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone_(database)

[gaius]

JPMorgan have a fairly serious Smalltalk app http://www.cincom.com/pdf/CS040819-1.pdf

However, only one. Make of that what you will.

[ben-coman]

Gemstone is not "using" Smalltalk. Gemstone "is-a" Smalltalk.

Here are commercial companies that believe in Pharo (in the money on the table way of measuring belief)

http://consortium.pharo.org/

[spooneybarger]

I know of a number of smaller business that are "as a service" that are built using Smalltalk.

[dunham]

Way back in the day, "DabbleDB" was written in Smalltalk. (It was a Zenkit/Airtable type web app.)

If I remember right, they had a separate image per customer and it took a moment to bring up the VM if hadn't been to the site in a while.

[luser1024]

Gemstone provides a database. There are very large Smalltalk based applications that run using Gemstone as the backing database[1] . These applications are, for the most part, very large in-house applications that don't have much external visibility.

[1] http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/docs/OOCL_SuccessStory.pdf

[fusiongyro]

DrGeo is a geometry package for education.

http://www.drgeo.eu/

MOOSE, which is some sort of code analysis tool:

http://www.moosetechnology.org/

I've never been able to make heads or tails of it, but it's kind of an architect-level tool and I'm just a lowly engineer.

[luser1024]

The first one that comes to mind is the scratch package[1]. The entire scratch language, as far as I know, runs on top of squeak

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/scratch

[monocasa]

Scratch was rewritten in JavaScript a few years back, AFAIK.