Just for the record I am in agreement as I think most of us are about this.

But....

I think as a community must make one thing clear

Pharo is environment meant to be hacked. Its not always to do so but
similarly to Squeak, the goal here is to give developers and environment
that they can design and modify themselves with ease. At least a lot more
than other languages and this is where Pharo really excels.

In the end Pharo does not tries to be the most popular thing out there, it
tries to fill a gap that others dont or cant. Sure we want to make Pharo
popular but making something that is a ready made solution is not our top
priority.  Making something modifiable and direct so much more.

I think its our responsibility to make this clear to newcomers.

Or else people will wonder, why not use python, ruby or whatelse which
comes with sophisticated IDEs far more lazy friendly than Pharo.

Pharo is definetly  , by nature, lazy coder friendly. Its for coders that
like to design their own workflow.

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 1:51 PM kmo <vox...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, my reply was rather tongue-in-cheek. I was mocking my own laziness
> and
> the laziness of developers like me. But really I have no problem in doing
> these things for myself. And I hope that soon I will be in a position to
> contribute to pharo myself.
>
> But overriding the close event is something any application developer is
> going to want to do. And every time you make a developer work harder than
> necessary to implement a basic feature you make the pharo platform less
> attractive. If you want more developers to use pharo you have to make basic
> things like this easy to do and easy to find out how to do.
>
> I do think that deployment of applications gets very little attention in
> pharo - yet it's a major issue of you want to make pharo a widely-used
> application platform.
>
> I'm not the only lazy developer, you know .
>
>
>
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