Moreover, we are increasing the system modularity so more classes in the IDE does not mean that you need to have them all loaded.
-- Pavel 2018-04-13 10:39 GMT+02:00 Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>: > As a general note, I have to say that I find amusing how people are often > annoyed about the growing size of the image and the amount of classes. > We have an image that contains a full IDE which incorpores more and more > modern capabilities. And you want that to stay small and fewer classes? I’m > sorry but you are missing the point. More tools (or same tools enhanced) > means more size and classes. > > Then… why the fear about classes? This is OOP. Doing classes is what we > do. > I prefer a new class to, for example passing same information into a > dictionary. > I prefer a new class over a string. > I prefer a new class over a tuple. > > We now have slots instead symbols to express variables. I dream with even > more classes: Selector, Protocol (we already have it, but we need to use > it), etc., etc., etc. > I will always prefer a class that defines a concept than a non-reified > usage of generic classes. > > We need better ways to organise that information? YES! (For example I was > thinking browser by default should not show “tool packages”, to reduce the > amount of information). > > But I welcome more classes and less esoteric usages of existing ones, > always. > > cheers, > Esteban > > On 13 Apr 2018, at 10:30, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 13 Apr 2018, at 10:25, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > On 13 April 2018 at 13:53, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users < > pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > >> Just a quick word to get some things straight because, quite frankly, I >> really don't know where we're heading. >> > > >> Do we really need 8 delay schedulers (DelayMicrosecondScheduler, >> DelayMillisecondScheduler, DelayNullScheduler, >> DelayExperimentalSpinScheduler, DelaySpinScheduler, >> DelayTicklessScheduler, DelayExperimentalCourageousScheduler, >> DelayExperimentalSemaphoreScheduler) ? >> > > This should have been cleaned up a while ago. Thanks for the bump. I'll > get to it. > However note, that half of those have not more than two methods, so are > not contributing much to the size of the Image. > > > I didn’t know. Thanks :) > > > >> Perhaps a little bit of clarity and details about what's coming and >> what's the plan would be beneficial to a lot of us. >> > > I guess you are looking for... > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-workingRoadmaps/ > blob/master/Pharo7/ROADMAP.md > > > cheers -ben > > > > > >
