2016-10-02 10:57 GMT-03:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: > By the way I am all for COM for Pharo, the issue is that 2/3 of our > community are MacOS and Linux users , I dont even remember the last time we > had a Windows only topic in the mailing list. Modern languages generally > avoid using OS specific libraries, the last exceptions be C# and Swift and > C# definetly looks like it will be fully cross platform soon enough (it > already is because of Mono).
I wouldn't state such affirmations without a proper surveying. My latest survey related with RDBMS support [1] showed that the users of Windows are on par with the users of MacOS. I am a Windows user, who runs most of the Pharo images inside Linux VMs not because I don't want to run them in Windows, but because the current support of Windows is somewhat limited. Having COM support for Pharo in a Windows environment would be a big enabler to a lot of current users of Smalltalk that don't use Pharo. Esteban A. Maringolo [1] https://medium.com/@emaringolo/pharo-rdbms-support-survey-results-9c8f640878db#.ym049enul
