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

garduino garduino at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 10:37:34 UTC 2018


garduino wrote
> 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 outdated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.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Dev-f45488.html

Sorry for the several typos, writing with few ligth and my tired eyes made
the conjunction :)



--
Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Dev-f45488.html


More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list