Am 13.01.18 um 12:39 schrieb Eliot Miranda:
> 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.
+1
