If Smalltalk is dead , that make Pharo a necromancer . Nice necromancers were always my favorite heroes in RPGs like Baldur's Gate :)
Pharo , the dark side of the force :D On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 7:37 PM, J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0 and had a few > comments that I thought I would share. > > First, there is a real opportunity for Smalltalk to come back in the guise > of Pharo. Steph and Marcus are doing a great job providing leadership > towards that end and the community is great. Second, we need to be careful > in spreading the word. Slowly but surely (the current Pharo approach) is a > great approach as it allows really building something worth spreading > before trying to get everyone into it. If it spreads too quickly, bad API > or immature toolkits will become ingrained and flaws will be apparent. The > books, websites, etc. are really good things to get right before trying to > get others into it; they are already very good. Third, if you want to > really spread Smalltalk, then the fundamentals that newcomers experience > need to be without obvious flaws. From personal experience, I can tell you > that BitBlt rendering makes newbies think that Pharo is a toy language. > Switching to Athens rendering is therefore tremendously important for > adoption. Package management really needs to be cleaned up. There needs to > be a simple way to merge resources (bitmaps, audio, external files) into > the codebase. Simple audio needs to work on all platforms. This may seem > trivial but audio is one of the simplest things that newcomers want to do. > From a Linux perspective, this will probably necessitate switching to a > 64-bit VM as the 32-bit sound plug-ins are a giant pain. Given that even > phone OSs are switching to 64-bit, there may not be a need for a 32-bit > Pharo. Of course, much of this is already on the horizon. > > As the new year begins, I'll once again be coding in Pharo and look > forward to it. I'm really hopeful about the future. > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. > http://www.je77.com/ > Skype ID: jochenrick >
