Skip to content

Shed Skin vs Smalltalk

A side-by-side look at Shed Skin and Smalltalk. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Shed Skin

Shed Skin

Development

Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, Python to C++, that makes creating Python extensions easy. It uses advanced static analysis and type inference techniques to generate optimized C++ code. Shed Skin can significantly improve the execution time of CPU-bound Python programs.

compilerpythoncoptimizationstatic-analysis
Smalltalk

Smalltalk

Development

Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. It was designed for incremental code development and testing, featuring an integrated development environment, a file system, and a system command shell. It paved the way for many IDE features that are now common in other languages.

objectorienteddynamically-typedreflectiveintegrated-development-environmentincremental-code-development