Everyone voices this concern, but it's important for people to understand that most Smalltalkers consider the binary image a throwaway artifact, and sometimes a deployment mechanism - it is emphatically not how you store or distribute code. There are standard, largely textfile based ways of doing that. I almost if it would be an advantage to not show beginners the "save image" menu item, because then it would be like any editor or IDE: if you haven't saved your source files, you lose your work, and you have to start each session by loading your source back in.