The new guy in town is Seaside.

Seaside arrived several years ago with little fanfare because it runs on Squeak, a relatively new version of Smalltalk. As you may know, Smalltalk is an “old” language that most of us have only heard the old-timers get sentimental about when they talk about the Good Old Days of the Computer Science Frontier.

It turns out that the Old is New again. It’s time to break camp and move on to the NeXT Level.

Hey, you don’t want to miss the Ground Floor again, do you? Give Seaside look.

In fact, Seaside predates Rails by more than 2 years.

dancroak:

This still strikes me as one of the coolest web apps around. The Smalltalk web app framework Seaside was extracted from this app.