There's no reason why we can't fight on several fronts. Pharo is great, but it ignores the JVM platform. Pharo is great, but we need Amber on the client side. I'm even hopeful about Essence# for .NET.
It would be terrific if we can rally more contributors to the Redline project. Strategically, this is a very important project. I cannot emphasize this enough. Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote > Yes, it is very alive: 20 commits in year or so. > > Pharo 4 has about 1700 in about the same time > (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core). And that is just one silly, > inaccurate metric. > > My point is, there are a couple of great Smalltalk implementations that > contain an incredible number of man-years of effort in their images (the > best being Pharo of course, but I am biased ;-), we can only achieve a > high quality platform by working together. The number of different > competences needed to successfully build a *COMPLETE* software platform > can *NEVER* be achieved by 'a couple of guys' let alone one individual. > > Now, it is not that they can not do so, of course they can, we need wild > and crazy ideas and research, but it is just wrong to see such experiments > as what should be promoted now. > > IMHO, of course. > >> On 15 Jan 2015, at 15:19, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> Actually, Redline is quite alive. There's a brand new repo: >> https://github.com/jamesladd/stc <https://github.com/jamesladd/stc> >> >> James just hasn't gotten around to normalizing all the links at his >> website. >> >> >> Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >>> A blank. >>> >>> Nothing happened to this project in more than a year >>> >>> https://github.com/redline-smalltalk/redline-smalltalk/commits/master >>> >>> It is mostly vapourware and has no users. >>> >>> People following the links on the article will soon find out. >>> >>> Just sad. >>> >>>> On 14 Jan 2015, at 23:40, horrido < >> >>> horrido.hobbies@ >> >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2867543/java/redline-smalltalk-bridging-smalltalk-jvm-worlds.html >>>> <http://www.infoworld.com/article/2867543/java/redline-smalltalk-bridging-smalltalk-jvm-worlds.html> >>>> >>>> >>>> Note the last paragraph. Our campaign will be noticed! >>>> >>>> This is exactly what I was after when I started the SRP. Spread the >>>> word >>>> about the campaign as far and wide as I could. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: >>>> http://forum.world.st/InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799612.html >>>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at >>>> Nabble.com. >>>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799612p4799699.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799612p4799719.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
