Excellent point, Philippe! I feel similarly. In fact, this is precisely what inspired me to write my very *first* (and one of my most popular) Medium.com articles: https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-zen-of-web2py-ede59769d084 <https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-zen-of-web2py-ede59769d084>
Web2py is still my favourite web framework (sorry, Seaside). philippeback wrote > For a project, I've had to look into Python and Django. > > After one evening installing and walking through the tutorial, I got the > gist of it. > > There was a distinct feel: this thing provides out of the box facilities > to > make basic DB backed applications and neat APIs. > > We miss that with Seaside. That's killing us for early adopter traction. > > We need scaffholding facilities and database connectivity if we want to > compete there. > If we want to escape the best kept secret trap that is. > > We may be too smart for our own good. > > This article "Why Smart People Make Bad Entrepreneurs" / > http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/240861#ixzz3ODI6RYR0 is really spot > on. > > I am not advocating dumbing down what we do but we need to provide easier > entry into the system. > > Talk is cheap, I know. Maybe could we put this on the table during Pharo > Days at the consortium roundtable. > > Phil > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Lawrence Kellogg < > mac.hive@ > > wrote: > >> At this point it should probably be "This is not your grandfather's >> Smalltalk" :-) >> >> Larry >> >> >> >> > On Jan 8, 2015, at 6:51 AM, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> > >> > https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-smalltalk-revolution-ee245c281f51 >> > >> <https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-smalltalk-revolution-ee245c281f51> >> > >> > I welcome your comments. It's not too late to edit the piece. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Revolution-tp4798320.html >> > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> > >> >> -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Revolution-tp4798320p4798344.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
