2014-09-16 13:14 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com>: > > Don't worry/don't bother with thoses: you will never use Smalltalk or a VM > :) It will never be certified by authorities, and the industry will never > accept it. > > > You are probably right for those two examples, but there are other > not-so-regulated domains where real-time is useful - e.g. industrial > automation and robotics. >
Real-time is usefull there, yes. But Smalltalk and Cog will never get there. Except as a DSL / code generator tool (which means a MDE approach, more or less). (And code generation is where Pharo to C or LLVM-IR gets us interested) Dynamic optimisations, lack of static typing: they will laugh you out in any of those fields. Even if their developpers use Python behind their back. Thierry
