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Smalltalk VS Visual Basic

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Smalltalk logo Smalltalk

Smalltalk is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language. It is objects all the way down.

Visual Basic logo Visual Basic

Modern, high-level, multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language for building apps using Visual Studio and the .NET Framework
  • Smalltalk Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-07-10
  • Visual Basic Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-13

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Smalltalk and Visual Basic)

Smalltalk

Visual Basic

Programming Language
68 68%
Programming Language
32% 32
OOP
80 80%
OOP
20% 20
Generic Programming Language
77 77%
Generic Programming Language
23% 23
Development
100 100%
Development
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Smalltalk should be more popular than Visual Basic. It has been mentiond 28 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Smalltalk mentions (28)

  • Old version of offline Scratch that had a secret OS
    Also, it's not really an "operating system", nor was it implemented by the ST. It's just part of Squeak (you got the name right), the "engine" Scratch 1.x was made with (which lets you edit the code in the same window it's running in). Source: about 1 year ago
  • Ask HN: Alternatives to organizing code in files and folders?
    Just downloaded https://squeak.org/ to play around with this concept. I wonder if there is already a modern tool/suite for Node/Python inspired by Smalltalk... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
  • What are some important differences between the popular versions of OOP (e.g. Java, Python) vs. the purist's versions of OOP (e.g. Smalltalk)?
    AFAIK the major SmallTalk distributions are https://squeak.org/ and https://pharo.org/. I've heard that Pharo is more complex and "practical", while Squeak is more educational and beginner-friendly. But both stick to their roots with "everything is an object or method", extreme reflection, and integrated runtime/IDE. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Ask HN: What software stack to select for this boot to code computer?
    Your concept looks nice, it reminds me a bit of the Lisperati: https://www.hackster.io/news/the-lisperati1000-is-a-cyberdeck-terminal-dedicated-to-lisp-programming-bb564f2ffcff So, did you consider Lisp or maybe Smalltalk? Plan 9 or Inferno might also be options. Plan 9 comes in different variants, the "classic" one (with a Raspberry Pi port by Richard Miller) or 9front, an Inferno porting tutorial can be found at... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
  • Squeak Morphic Layers
    This repository contains multiple projects closely related to (hardware-accelerated) rendering in Squeak/Smalltalk. Source: over 1 year ago
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Visual Basic mentions (5)

  • Is there a visual basic tutorial for people people who already know how to program?
    Yes. It's called the documentation. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Any good tutorials and books for VB.Net and VBA?
    The Microsoft documentation is probably going to be the best bet for VB.NET. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Magikcraft – Teaching Kids to Program Using Minecraft with Joshua Wulf
    And for that one, I had a friend who worked at the computer place who had Visual Basic, and I was like, "Give me the Visual Basic disc." And so I loaded that onto my computer and just made a CV as a program in Visual Basic, put it on a floppy disk, and then dropped it in the letterbox of this guy who was in his garage. He had a small business, and he needed an extra programmer. And that's how I started my first... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago
  • Where can I find a very good VBA course?
    How about this by Microsoft? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • Need help running a vb.net console application in powershell.
    Are you referring to the .NET version of Visual Basic here or the classic Visual Basic 6 which pre-dates .NET by quite a bit and whose extended support ended in 2008? Source: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Smalltalk and Visual Basic, you can also consider the following products

Pharo - Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on...

F# - F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language.

C++ - Has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features, while also providing the facilities for low level memory manipulation

D (Programming Language) - D is a language with C-like syntax and static typing.

Perl - Highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 26 years of development

Pike programming language - Dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C

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