Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language

If only our interactions with "non-teaching" languages were anything like this ... or humane, in the lineage of Bret Victor, etc.

Also shout out @tonyg for Syndicate! I keep coming back to it -- a beautiful piece of PL work.

The go-back debugger is great, I am providing this in my educational Python IDE here: https://primopy.com

I will never understand the point of teaching languages that aren't actually used. To me it just seems like its intended to be easier for the teacher rather than being beneficial for the student.

Python is already a super simple language and has enough functional plus OOP orientation that it can be used to showcase every concept and still be useful for the student.

Completely pointless...

Who remembers turning and object oriented turing from the university of Waterloo?