On Sep 27, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Hubert Wagner wrote:
> Hello Stephane :
> Thank you for the welcome message.
>
>> Second: our goal is to create an ecosystem around pharo...if you
>> have...needs for business or anything else just let us know.
>
>
> I'm a Mac OSX user and newcomer to SmallTalk and to Pharo. I have an
> uncomfortable feeling my question may entirely miss some significant point,
> whatever that is.
>
> I'm puzzled why the only SmallTalk I've found which runs on the Mac, namely
> VisualWorks, has a GUI painter. However, compared to Xcode or even RealBasic
> (or Hypercard for that matter), the GUI painter seems remarkably primitive,
> given the length of time VisualWorks and SmallTalk, in general, have been
> under development.
Lack of vision?
For Pharo we were just busy fixing so many things but this is on our roadmap.
Now with a UIBuilder you have
- placing widgets
- creating ***reusable*** widgets with logic reuse
VW is supporting that.
And we are working on that part too with Spec.
> An up-to-date GUI builder with well designed, native widgets seems to me to
> be a prerequisite for a working software development application. Being
> required, for example, to program a button from scratch takes one back to the
> early days of personal computing.
>
> What is preventing the various SmallTalks from offering a modern GUI painter?
for us this is money, give me 5 engineers full time and Pharo will not look
like Pharo anymore :).
PS: Smalltalk and not SmallTalk
>
> My Best Wishes for Pharo and SmallTalk :
> Hubert Wagner, France
