On 9 March 2012 22:41, Geert Claes <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I have succumbed and will post a quick reply ... although I realize this > looks like one of those threads where a lot of people say "we need to do > this ... or ... we need to do what xyz does" and as Stef often - and rightly > so - says, don't just talk but roll up your sleeves and do something :) > > Anyhow, I reckon Pharo has already come a long way since I started following > the Smalltalk community ... I know some people like them but I cringed at > the pastel colored screens. Pharo's biggest problem is still bad UX i.e. > User eXperience. The latest Nautilus browser is only marginally better than > the alternatives, but it hasn't really evolved much from the browsers from > the 70's. From a usability point of view, Pharo and its browsers are not > intuitive and don't look cool enough to attract more new blood and increase > its popularity. > Well, cool is not synonim of useful. But i agree: cool and useful is way better than just useful or just cool.
> Having said that, I am actually more interested to see things like > SmalltalkHub launched and whatever can be done to make web app development > in Smalltalk easier with things like Amber Smalltalk. People want to make > web apps and finding somewhere cheap to host your stuff is much easier when > using RoR, Django or whatever rather than Seaside, AIDA or Iliad. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Increase-populatity-of-Pharo-by-doing-some-Killer-OpenSource-Tools-tp4459902p4460632.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
