Friday, January 30, 2004
BottomFeeder
BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client (RSS and Atom) that runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux and a variety of different Unix platforms. It's written in VisualWorks Smalltalk which has a great runtime based development environment but also can create single-file executables that only include the Smalltalk code that is needed. Jim Robertson, the lead developer of BottomFeeder, blogs about this in reference to Joel's plea for Microsoft to provide a linker for .NET. Take that, .NET and Java... 
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