GToolkit
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
Jul 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“But it's very fun to use and play with”
“Lepiter (and GT by extension) seems immensely powerful”
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“See GToolkit”
“which handles GUI better is GToolkit”
“https://gtoolkit.com/ or https://moosetechnology.org/”
Caveats and dissent
“Multiple cursors, iedit, re-builder/visual-regex, editable occur, AST-based editing (paredit/combobulate) are just some of the features I use regularly in Emacs which are (and will be, for a long time) missing in GT.”
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Data: gtoolkit.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“But it's very fun to use and play with”
“Lepiter (and GT by extension) seems immensely powerful”
“Multiple cursors, iedit, re-builder/visual-regex, editable occur, AST-based editing (paredit/combobulate) are just some of the features I use regularly in Emacs which are (and will be, for a long time) missing in GT.”
“See GToolkit”
“which handles GUI better is GToolkit”
“GToolkit has Lepiter, and Smalltalks in general have comments on classes that can be used to write long-form docs.”
“https://gtoolkit.com/ or https://moosetechnology.org/”
“a COBOL-bridge that has been used in managing transitions of legacy systems”