Irontalk is an attempt to create a complete implementation of the Smalltalk programming language for the Common Language Runtime (AKA the .NET Framework).

Currently Irontalk is in a testing stage. A simple command-line tool is included to evaluate Smalltalk expressions using the Irontalk engine. Though Irontalk is intended to become a full Smalltalk interpreter, compiler, and runtime, only the interpreter and runtime facilities are currently in place.

Irontalk is being developed using Monodevelop 2.4, Mono 2.6, and NUnit, but the development infrastructure should work equally as well using Visual Studio and Microsoft .NET. We invite all interested developers to check out the repository and load it up in the IDE of their choice. The build infrastructure is MSBuild/XBuild and I have no intention of changing that, so please don’t ask to change to Makefiles or CMake or NAnt or any such nonsense, as the proper open source tools are (and have been) available to compile the code without requiring Visual Studio.

Copyright © 2010 William Lahti.

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