It is always tempting to go where others are. Yet, once we get there you might notice that many other people are there as well, and all of a sudden we are less remarkable and we get less attention than we hoped for.
In the meantime, I will continue working with people to make Pharo the thing that others will envy. I do want Pharo to be the odd one out, the Purple Cow. It is exactly by doing something radically different that we have a chance of reinventing software engineering. Some might think that it is not possible. That we are too small. That we have no funding. That ... there are many reasons to be found for giving up and doing what others are doing. But, I think we are closer to reaching the Purple Cow than we think. We are on an ascending trend and the most important features are not yet out. We still have a hard road ahead of us, but I believe we are approaching a very interesting period in the Pharo history. I would like to remind people that the aim of the Pharo project is more ambitious than the Smalltalk one. Please rally and focus on the larger goal. Together, we will get there. Doru On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:15 AM, horrido <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe in Redline. I think it's a very important project, strategically. > On Twitter and elsewhere, I am urging contributors to join Redline. It > would > be something of a tragedy if Redline failed to reach version 1.0. *We need > Smalltalk on the JVM.* > > > jamesl wrote > > Hi Smalltalkers, > > > > Redline Smalltalk is not dead although it looks like it. > > I recently made the grammar much cleaner and moved to using Antlr4 as > well > > as cleaning up the > > internals. Yes - what is in the core project in github is dormant and I > > have spun off 'stc' to contain > > the the work Im doing until an appropriate time to merge back into that > > main. > > > > I'd love some help but right now you would be limited to copying across > > the runtime library and writing > > tests around it as I concentrate on the bytecode generation and > underlying > > code - which is hard to have too many people helping with. > > > > I'm *very* busy in my life right now with a startup (http://mywave.me) > and > > personal life but I really > > am trying to find the time to push this along. > > > > I've set myself some fitness, work and Smalltalk goals for this year and > > all going well Redline will be > > out in September. BUT - Please don't hate me. > > > > This is the Year of Smalltalk and we can change the world - one JVM at a > > time ;) > > > > - James. > > Redline Smalltalk > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799612p4799830.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
