Smalltalk Is the Only ‘Object-Oriented’ Language That Matters. The Rest Is Just Syntax.
Learning Smalltalk doesn’t teach you a language — it rewires how you think about code. Modern OOP languages are class-oriented, not object-oriented. They borrowed the syntax but abandoned the soul. This article explains why Smalltalk remains the purest embodiment of object-oriented programming and why revisiting it can reset your mental models.