On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:01 AM, askoh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all the comments. Let me distilled what I have learned. Correct me > if I am wrong. > > In Smalltalk: > Production environment and development environment are very similar if not > identical.
The "environments" on my laptop are the same as my production server? No, one should never count on that. > Runtime and debug modes are identical. So, debugging is instantaneous > available. What about everyone's obsession with shrinking? No one minds a "luxurious" IDE image for development, but most of us seem hell-bent on deploying "minimal" production servers totally stripped of those IDE/debugging luxuries. Now, I'm sure the debugger itself is not stripped, so that's better than nothing, unless running true headless with no way to get a window on the image. We're certainly "able" to do it, but it seems like our desire to shrink might cause need for some balance that provides the best of both worlds..
