I've read a number of LinkedIn posts from Mariano Martínez Peck about recent innovations to VA Smalltalk, IIRC. Seems to me that Instantiations are doing a good job of innovating, too.
Torsten Bergmann wrote >>Yes. And I think it's even more sad than the containers example doesn't work anymore... AFAIK they replaced the system. > > Many things seem to be possible in times where talks like "How to get rid > of Smalltalk" [1] will be presented on > a Smalltalk conference (here ESUG 2019). > > Did commercial / traditional Smalltalk world really change over the years? > I'm not following them too closely in recent months > but I see some commercial vendors still try to attract people with old > success stories and videos from ancient times. > Where is the "coolness factor" combined with fancy marketing to attract > new generations and audience... > > And this although Smalltalk seems to be often mentioned as favourite > language like in [2] > > Pharo is in fact the main innovation driver these days. Another reason to > move on, to improve it or even change Pharo more radical > into a world beyond traditional Smalltalk. We all know that many new cool > and interesting things could be done on top > of the powerful base of a lively and dynamic object oriented system which > we still share with the historic roots.... > > Bye > T. > > [1] https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/conf2019.html > [2] https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1157049284870602752 -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
