I agree that Amber is important, given that client-side web development is the /fad du jour/. But having a Smalltalk on the JVM is also important if we want to penetrate the enterprise. JVM is the closest thing we have to a "standard" enterprise platform.
Languages such as Scala and Groovy have had some measure of success on the JVM. I'd be happy if Smalltalk could achieve even this level of popularity! Generalissimo Esteban A. Maringolo wrote > El ene 15, 2015 8:55 AM, "Sebastian Sastre" < > sebastian@ > > > escribió: >> >> >>> On Jan 14, 2015, at 9:44 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo < > emaringolo@ > > > wrote: >>> >>> Shaking the hive can certainly have a positive outcome, but you can also > get you bitten. :) >> >> >> And what’s the news on that? >> >> The world is full of people paralysed by fear. >> >> Scared people is not worth following (they are not going to invent any > interesting future). >> >> The ones who dear to do different are way more interesting. >> > > I totally agree with you. But the mentioned project was a viable option > two > years ago, when it was trying to get developer traction and the "runs on > JVM" was a hyped feature (not to mention the bad experience almost > everyone > had with such things). > > Amber is, IMO, way more valuable and with a greater feature than Redline. > And I never used any of them. > > I wouldn't do a PR campaign mentioning VW's Pollock UI, Pharo's Spec or > any > other abandoned project whatsoever. > > A different thing is a project of which you can expect to move at a slow > pace, but uninterruptedly. > > Regards, -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Re-Pharo-dev-InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799686p4800174.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
