I'm impressed to see that GraalVM supports Smalltalk bytecode and therefore you can run Squeak and even interoperate with other supported languages! https://www.javaadvent.com/2019/12/smalltalk-with-the-graalvm.html
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Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently:
* IntelliJ (for Java)
* Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp)
* Pharo (for Smalltalk)
I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.
One subtle behaviour of Claude that wasn't obvious to me: whilst each conversation is transient, permissions persist across conversations.
So if you've given permission to run e.g. 'cargo test' or even 'cargo run', you need to be sure that all future invocations are safe too.
You can see the current permissions with /permissions.
Trying the nix CLI today, and I'm seriously impressed with the formatting of its --help output.
Indented warnings, italics, bullets, even adding a left border to code snippets! It's a nice reminder to take full advantage of terminal features to help the reader.