Hi Stephan,
> On Jan 13, 2018, at 2:08 AM, Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Isn't it important to preserve the ability to exchange code > between Pharo, >> Squeak and Cuis? Don't you care that the VM development is directly >> affected by this? Is the VM and plugin support not important to Pharo? > > Git support turns out to be much more work than we hoped and expected. Too > many library updates needed, support for different workflows and platforms, > switch to file per class. The Iceberg channel on Discord is one of the > busiest channels. You don't say? One of Clément's themes in recent talks on VM performance is that we, as a very small team, are able to develop such a sophisticated optimizer because we use Smalltalk. We are hugely productive in the vm simulator. People using Smalltalk, including the Pharo, Squeak and Cuis dialects that constitute our community, report the same in many different domains, notably Bloc, GT Toolkit and Rossal. Then why on /earth/ would one stop using Smalltalk in /the most central part/ of the collaborative programming process, version control? This is a huge blunder. Now a major part of the Pharo community's efforts goes into an external component, upon which Pharo is entirely dependent, and slowly but surely it is cutting itself off from its sibling communities. Iceberg is well named. People rearranged the chairs on deck while the Titanic sank. > > Stephan _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
