Kilon: Thanks for your input. That is indeed brainstorming. I know the importance of doing too. But the value of brainstorming is big. A farmer does a lot of work but is not valued much. Watson and Crick brainstormed a lot and discovered the double helix. I don't want Smalltalk to miss that power.
Your description of your work and the work of other Smalltalkers shows the amount of work already done. I too have done CAD and Motion Simulation work using VisualWorks, C#, SpaceClaim, Inventor. But there is no killer app or killer use case in all of Smalltalk! How did Python's and Ruby's popularity leapfrog Smalltalk's? How can we get some attention so that we have resources to really grow? China have been widely accused of copying. But I noticed that they have also picked up discarded technologies that are excellent technologies. Examples are solar cells, wind turbines, high speed rail, nuclear power, Alpha chip, MIPS chip, manufacturing, Kylin OS, etc. Perhaps we can make some nation see Smalltalk for the great technology it has for programming productivity. Brainstorming is free speech at its best. Please everyone join. Aik-Siong Koh -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Google-building-new-OS-with-Dart-tp4911649p4912398.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
