On 09 Dec 2010, at 20:39, Eliot Miranda wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, stephane ducasse <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi guys > > When I see that. I would really like to see how we can create something > around the cloud. We have a lot of assets. > Does anybody have some interest bootstrapping a business around that? > > _very_ I'd love to do high-quality VM work funded in this kind of context.
Isn't / shouldn't Cog already (be) a high quality VM then ? I don't think (I am actually pretty sure) that Ruby has a good VM, Smalltalk's is way better (many more decades of experience, from the times when hardware mattered). Up until very recently (and even after the RoR hype started) they had no unicode support and no multithreading. Even now, they always (have to) deploy clusters of multiple VMs to scale. [On the other hand, this makes every deploy better scaleable because they have to do it from day one]. Seaside can do all that too (the scaling/clustering), it is sometimes little things that cause problems. For example, many people have tried but very little have succeeding in building a VM themselves that is as fast as the 'official' ones. Headless support is another one. Better sockets and streaming would also help. Cloud support is actually lot's of Unix/Linux level work combined with automation. Smalltalk, Ruby, Lisp, Python, Java, .Net or even C, it doesn't matter much. But don't get me wrong, I do think Smalltalk has an interesting future. It is still one of the nicest languages/environments/IDE's/communities to work in. And Pharo has been a great step in modernizing Smalltalk. And Cog just made everything incredibly much faster. Sven
