It does not matter how one calls Pharo, the only people who care are smalltalk developers and they are not that many out there anyway.
Pharo tries to attract all developers but in order to do that in order for it become more popular it has to play the rules and the rules are simple, active support, libraries and documentation. Take a look at your TIOBE INDEX you think that any of those top 10 , top 50 or top 100 languages got up there out of accident, or maybe out of good PR , because people tweet about them ? Hell no ! Java , Javascript and C++ are some of the most hated languages out there. Python and Ruby some of the most loved . The only common thing these language have is their huge libraries , massive support and documentation projects . This is the real competition to Pharo becoming more popular. Pharo has been progressing very well, not because people tweet about it but because it has more tools, better libraries and active effort to expand and organise documentation. It has people who do the hard work. Sure tweeting gives it more exposure but in the end nobody is going buy the PR hype , we all know PR is bullshit if you dont have a quality product to sell. How Pharo will compete with Python if it cant offer a similar amount of what Python offers if not more like all the other Python competitors ? Pharo does not need a marketing team, it needs more contributors . So does every other language that needs to expand. On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:10 PM, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Which is why I've chosen Pharo as the public "face" of Smalltalk. It has > the > most active community, and the best chance of widespread adoption. > > Still, to call it a "new language", to say that "it's not Smalltalk", is a > mistake. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Renaissance-Program-tp4797112p4797374.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
