On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 5:35 PM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote:
> This is a good example of the "empowering map" I talk about about > "Pharo/Smalltalk places for you". What we can look forward in 2017 is > different for different people, so going beyond the "most exiting > developments", hype and shiny new things is also a way to show how > Pharo/Smalltalk are different. We can provide shine and hype, but also > we're building stuff for different interests and people and that is even > more worthy to look for the upcoming times (2017 and beyond). > > Cheers, > > Offray > I think there is big difference between doing something exciting versus doing something useful. Excitement dies out but usefulness does not. I don't do it to make Pharo look cool, I do it because I need it. I also do not like to do something and then abandon it like it happens for 99% of the open source software. Also maintenance becomes a big issue if the scope is wide. Of course you can also combine excitement with usefulness and still keep the scope reasonably achievable. A thing I love about Pharo is because its so limited third party library wise it forces me to go do that stuff myself and this definitely builds confidence in one's coding skills. I really like this DYI approach and I am definitely moving to the opposite direction of "do not reinvent the wheel". This would have been unthinkable in communities of very popular languages. I really like that Pharo forces me to be much less lazy as a coder. Its also impressive to see the things that other people do by themselves too and be inspired by it. The real problem is that this work is not really visible, I think Pharo needs something like a magazine and people should be encouraged to share their work even if it is in early stage because you never know who will find it useful. I feel the things we see in the mailing list is only the tip of the iceberg of what people work on and is pity all this code to be lost in obscurity.
