I replied separately, but if you are interested in researching what
"experienced Smalltalkers see as some of the reasons why it doesn't
attract more attention" you should also search the list archives. This
is a bit of a permathread.

I recommend searching for the term 'marketing' or 'success'

marketing site:http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Mark Volkmann <mark at ociweb.com> wrote:
> 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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> For me the biggest issue has been trying to run my code from outside Squeak.
> This includes running Squeak headless to do something script-like and
> configuring a GUI application to run in a way that doesn't require the user
> to know they are running Squeak. Both of these are supposedly possible, but
> very difficult to get right.
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