[Seaside] companies developing in pharo

[Avi Shefi]

Stephane,
I might not be an old Smalltalker, but I can certainly feel your concerns.
I come from a rich background in numerous development environments &
methodologies, and I KNOW that Smalltalk is a great way to develop programs.
It is the lack of tools, scaffolding, code generation and UI design that
diminishes its appeal. I'm not talking about the already-fantastic code
editing tools, but the fact that things haven't changed much, compared to
other environments/languages.

It seems to me that Smalltalk could benefit from a "Community Advisory
Board" where people from the community are involved in what's happening, and
have a vote for the future of things. This way we won't have to wait for
nobody, and we'll certainly make the system more alive.

On the Seaside point of view: I had the time to look into
NOLOH<http://www.noloh.com/>lately (Not One Line Of Html), and the
only thing that was in my mind was:
"Gee, Seaside can handle this better". Yet the tools for NOLOH, the use
cases, examples, documentation, and whatever are more appealing. Seaside IS
better, but it needs more tools that accompany it.



Regards,
Avi.


On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:51 PM, stephane ducasse
<stephane.ducasse at free.fr>wrote:

> thanks a lot sebastian. We had your company already in the list and I
> really wish you a lot of success.
>
> Stef
> PS: some of you may know it but I'm *****really****** concerned about our
> (yours + mine) future. How can we build and invent
> it and control it. How can we make sure that if avi would get back in 5
> years, he would invent again seaside in Smalltalk?
> Right now I'm really worried by the state of our vms because it can
> endanger the liveness of the complete
> system (truck factor, lack of evolution,....).
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Sebastian Sastre wrote:
>
> > it's amazing to hear this. Beautiful. Also just right (for the industry
> and future of Smalltalk).
> >
> > at flowing we choosed Pharo to run airflowing (the main product which had
> the very first prototype made on squeak)
> >
> > it runs on N pharo workers (balanced with apache) so it can scale without
> points of contention in M servers
> >
> > our superpower is a combination of seaside plus a home made framework on
> top of it
> >
> > and here I wrote a few lines to talk about how to achieve the goal:
> >
> > How to have an ecosystem around your technology?
> >
> > o/
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:55 PM, stephane ducasse wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys
> >>
> >> We are working hard on making pharo better. Our goal is to make sure
> that people can build nice software
> >> in Pharo and be successful. We want to create an ecosystem around Pharo.
> >> Now it will help us to know companies developing in pharo. Do not
> hesitate to contact privately if you do not want to say it publicly.
> >> We keep an internal record for private communication within our
> laboratory.
> >>
> >> you can see some of the public sucess stories at
> http://www.pharo-project.org/
> >>
> >> Stef
> >>
> >> BTW: if you want to join pharo you are welcome.
> >>
> >>
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