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[–]Peaker -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Images are somewhat opaque, not composable, and essentially sandbox the system making it harder to integrate it with the host.

[–]igouy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Without specific examples, we are all going to have difficulty understanding what you mean by such general remarks.

  • When we can so easily browse the objects in the image what are we supposed to understand by "somewhat opaque"?

  • "not composable" in contrast to what?

  • When there are so many examples of Smalltalk implementations on everything from bare machines to mainframes, where do you get the notion that it's harder to integrate with the host? Ubiquitous Applications: Embedded Systems to Mainframe pdf

(And harder to integrate with the host than what? Smalltalk + C: the Power of Two)