hernanmd wrote > I am not that convinced Smalltalk should be popular. Surely any > smalltalker > could find easily (more) job offers, that would be the only determinant > factor because we need desperately more Smalltalk positions. But > popularity > has many drawbacks.... some smalltalkers are afraid to competition, and we > all read the StackOverflow 'popular' questions...
One of the chief reasons I would like Smalltalk to be more popular is to spur the expansion of the Pharo (Smalltalk) ecosystem, i.e., domain-specific class libraries. For example, I'm interested in A.I. and machine learning. This involves a great deal of statistical and numerical computing, an area where Pharo (Smalltalk) is not particularly strong. Python, on the other hand, has *fabulous* support for statistical and numerical computing, which frankly makes me very envious. The reason why Python has this is because of its vast user base, i.e., its /popularity/. There simply aren't enough Smalltalkers interested in statistical and numerical computing to develop such libraries. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Mea-Culpa-tp4800840p4910913.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
