Wilkes Joiner posted a screencast showing off debugging in Seaside. For those that haven’t been exposed to the Smalltalk way of web development, this could be a bit of an eye opener…

Anecdotical evidence suggests that the more experienced a Smalltalk developer is, the more code (proportionally) is written inside the debugger. It’s just so much easier to have all the real, run-time context at your fingertips than having to juggle it all in your mind. So it is only natural that web development takes place there as well. Seaside supports it extremely well, but most web frameworks will have no problems leveraging the available debugging support.

We shouldn’t call it a Debugger, come to think of it. More like an interactive code conversation tool.

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