What is Dolphin Smalltalk?
Dolphin Smalltalk is an object-oriented programming language and integrated development environment. It is designed for simplicity, productivity, and agile software development.
Some key features of Dolphin Smalltalk include:
- Pure object-oriented language with a light and concise syntax
- Integrated IDE with code browser, debugger, profiler and other tools
- Fast compiler and virtual machine with automatic memory management
- Rich standard library with collections, streams, networking, GUI framework and more
- Seamless integration between development tools and runtime environment
- Cross-platform support for Windows, macOS and Linux
- Active and supportive user community
Dolphin Smalltalk facilitates rapid iterative development with short feedback cycles. The integrated tools allow developers to easily navigate, understand, refactor and test code. The language and tools are designed to maximize programmer productivity while creating maintainable and modular applications.
With its simplicity, flexibility and rich set of libraries, Dolphin Smalltalk is well suited for various application areas like business software, financial systems, scientific tools, prototyping, simulation, educational software and more.
Microsoft Visual Studio, Apache NetBeans, Eclipse, .NET Framework, React Studio, .NET Core, SqueakJS, F# (programming language), MonoDevelop, Pharo are some alternatives to Dolphin Smalltalk.