>> Sven >> >> PS: I occasionally read the Squeak mailing and I see the work that you are >> doing and it is impressive. Your attitude, approach and drive remind me of >> the many Pharo developers. I would not dream of convincing you, but IMHO you >> would fit perfectly in the Pharo community, where you would find more >> interaction and feedback - maybe you would even reconsider using Smalltalk >> in business. > > Thanks, Sven. I'm really not trying to pick fights over here. And > perhaps today was a bad day to open my mouth at all, given my > crankiness level. > > I would _love_ to be able to use Smalltalk at work. Until it can work > properly with git, and people can use their own text editors (vim, > emacs, sublime), and quite a few other bits and pieces, it's just a > non-starter.
that's simply not true, as you can see by all the success stories: http://files.pharo.org/SuccessStories/ > I _like_ Pharo, and I _like_ how it has energy and momentum, and a > much nicer UI than the old Pharo 1.0 UI. I'm honestly quite jealous of > the resources the community wields, not just because of INRIA's and > the Consortium's money, but because there are loads of people actually > around, who are prepared to knuckle down and do the gruntwork needed. > Squeak is now a very small community. I'm rather proud of what we get > done with what little we have. that is sad :(, I really think your contribution would be better off over here. I speak for many at our lab I think, that there is no motivation to prepare stuff for squeak: burnt once, fooled twice :/
