[squeak-dev] what is holding back Smalltalk?

David Mitchell david.mitchell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 23:29:04 UTC 2008


Rails is a web framework. Did you mean Seaside?

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Michael van der Gulik
<mikevdg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Mark Volkmann <mark at ociweb.com> wrote:
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>> I don't have a lot of experience with Smalltalk yet, but I really love
>> what I've seen so far.
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>> I'm curious what experienced Smalltalkers see as some of the reasons why
>> it doesn't attract more attention. I understand the issues with Smalltalk in
>> the past related to license costs and performance, but those have been
>> addressed now. Have you tried to convince someone to consider Smalltalk and
>> failed to convince them? Why do you think they rejected it? What
>> improvements could be made to current Smalltalk environments, especially
>> Squeak, that might sway them?
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> I'd like to ask how Ruby on Rails got so popular, and what makes it
> different from Squeak?
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> Gulik.
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