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st – The missing unified installer and runner for Smalltalk

Smalltalk has excellent live environments, but managing the different VMs, images, and installers for Pharo, Cuis, Squeak, Glamorous Toolkit, GNU Smalltalk, etc. is painful.

I made st — a lightweight shell-based CLI that gives one consistent interface:

  • st pharo install && st pharo run

  • st gt install, st cuis install, etc.

  • Basic package search/install and eval support where available

  • Works on Linux/macOS/Windows (WSL)

Repo: https://github.com/hernanmd/st

Happy to answer questions, take feedback, or hear what other Smalltalk pain points you'd like addressed.

Contributions welcome (especially adding new dialects)!

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