[squeak-dev] Survey: what do you do with Squeak, what do you *want* to do?

garduino garduino at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 23:05:12 UTC 2018


Sorry being late here, but my answers, trying to add my 2 cents.

> What do you use Squeak for? 

Not using it currently, but I've several legacy projects, that got outdated
unfortunately.

> If you don't use Squeak, why not?
> If you used Squeak in the past and don't now, what pulled you away? 
> What does Squeak lack that you think might make you use it for 'regular'
> development? 

I abandoned it to develop professional desktop applications, for a lot of
reasons:

1. Not a decent UI that the regular common users can feel as in home.
2. The damn single window metaphor.
3. The lack of good integration with the operating systems.
4. Tha lack of good/easy integration with libraries in other languages.
5. Tha lack of must-be native code in areas as cryptography for example.
6. I never understood why excellent pieces of code (as Morphic UI Builder
for example) never has been included in the base image (I wrote about this
in this same list).
7. The always present inestability between releases, being very hard to move
your project to a new image version.
8. The lack of ways to generate native executables versions of my
applications to different operating systems.

to mention the most significative reasons that comes to my mind right now.
May be some of my points have changed with the time, I'm not using Squeak
from some years. 

> What things are too hard or annoying to do? 

Try to compete (I mean sell your app against the competence written in any
common language that have a normal UI and integration with the operating
system) with Squeak and you will undestand that is an impossible.


I had to develop my password manager in Dolphin, because I wouldn't have
sold a single licenses if I were attempted with Squeak.


> What would you like to be able to use Squeak for? 


I always dream with a Smalltalk environment that permit me work
professionally in any operating system (includind mobile) but also I
understand that this is an open source project with no funds and is not easy
to make great things with no money involved.

Please, do not take my words as a criticism, but you asked and I answer with
honestity.



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