On Sep 6, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Ramon Leon wrote:

>> Maybe.  Or maybe this is momentum which will fade in time if
>> it isn't turned into something else.  Seaside is bringing
>> them here, that is 100% right.  But how many are looking
>> around at all the cool things in the 3.8 image but can't get
>> anything to work and can't find documentation to do anything?
>
> I prefer to be an optimist, I've been studying and learning  
> Smalltalk for
> about 3 years now, and I've seen nothing but growth in the  
> community. I have
> no reason to fear that will change.
>
>> At some point the other languages will have seaside
>> completely duplicated.
>
> Not likely, if it were so easy to do, Smalltalk wouldn't have been  
> chosen as
> the implementation language.  I believe Ruby was Avi's initial  
> choice, but
> he ran into problems with it's continuations (I could be wrong).

I wrote something about that history here:
http://smallthought.com/avi/?p=4

Seaside itself could probably be duplicated on another platform  
(especially on Ruby), but then, you wouldn't have Smalltalk - and to  
a large degree I see Seaside as a (good) way to write web  
applications in Smalltalk, not Smalltalk as a way to support Seaside.

Avi