On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:02:47 +0100, Mark Volkmann mark@ociweb.com wrote:
I don't have a lot of experience with Smalltalk yet, but I really love what I've seen so far.
I'm curious what experienced Smalltalkers see as some of the reasons why it doesn't attract more attention.
Me thinks that the Smalltalk community is healthy and vibrant--it is "just" a community form one would not expect for Ruby or Python or Perl, etc. To get impression of my impression take a look at what *actually* happened during the *recent* months:
- Exupery (native x86 methods) powers Huemul - Seaside (web++ framework++) powers GLASS - Hydra (multiple parallel .images) powers Croquet .images - Google hires developers with deep Smalltalk experience - two more gods to be worshipped in the VM temple ;) - Squeak powers NewSpeak - new book Squeak by Example (creative commons license) - port of OpenDBX to Squeak (still not on windoze) - port of Squeak/VM to "another" smartphone platform ;) - DrGeo made it to the XO (OLPC) - fresh new subcommunity Pharo - attempt? to port Moose (world class sw analysis) to Squeak - Google hires developers with deep Smalltalk experience - Squeak web site migrated to/powered by Aida/Web Squeak - 4 (four) projects run through 2008's Goggle Summer of Code - the "everybody needs it" Safara from GSoC as yet not in mainstream - the "everybody needs it" Squeak GTK from GSoC as yet not in mainstream - IBM builds Smalltalk IDE inside Eclipse - Google hires developers with deep Smalltalk experience - ESUG 2008 conference draws more attendands than ever
That list is of course incomplete, for example one wants to add the many noobs who joined #squeak and the beginners mailing list.
I do not think that *soo* much is holding back Smalltalk ;)
/Klaus