Oddly enough, I've had better results by appealing to history. I guess it has more to do with *how* I did it, my style and creativity.
Things like Flutter and Elixir and Kotlin (for Android) are anomalies. Essentially, they benefitted from luck and word of mouth. You can't rely on that. While Smalltalk adoption has grown, if only slightly, it's still so far behind that much of the public continues to believe Smalltalk is dying. For me, that simply isn't good enough. It would be really nice to have some big tech company adopt Smalltalk, like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Uber, etc. That would hit the ball right out of the park. Alas, I don't see that happening. I'm afraid JP Morgan, Siemens, and Thales aren't good enough. Esteban A. Maringolo wrote > Hi Richard, > > I don't find Smalltalk easy to evangelize, and in my experience the > appeal to history (a variation of the "argumentum ad antiquitatem" > fallacy) proved ineffective. > > People don't care about who invented MVC, bitblt or JIT, and so make > decisions looking into the future, they weight in the past of course, > but looking forward is what matters for any decision you take now. > > That's why things like Flutter or Elixir and other "new" technologies > get the attention they get these days, even when there are no "huge" > success cases. I can't judge whether these techs have value, are hyped > and/or there is a lot of FOMO in the decision making process. And no, > I don't believe it is because of Google shoving it through people > throats, it's people finding something valuable and trying to get an > professional advantage by learning/adopting it early. > > Smalltalk adoption in the last decade has grown by its own merits, > _despite_ of the efforts to promote it. > > I would bet that any appeal to emotion could be more effective, since > most developers get frustrated and any modern Smalltalk dialect can > ease that inherent frustration of software development, or even > better, turn it into an enjoyable experience (as it's been my case for > over a decade). > > Have some reasonable big tech/company saying they're going to use X, > and you'll have flocks of users trying X. > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 5:03 PM horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> Absolutely correct. Each of those languages do have good reasons to >> choose >> them. I have never said otherwise. >> >> My point is that Smalltalk gives me many more reasons, many more ways to >> evangelize it. Smalltalk is very easy to evangelize. That's the premise >> of >> the entire article, and if it's wrong, then I should delete the entire >> article. >> >> Is it wrong? >> >> >> >> Esteban A. Maringolo wrote >> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 2:23 PM horrido < >> >> > horrido.hobbies@ >> >> > > wrote: >> > >> >> I happen to like Dart, Elixir, Golang, Julia, and Rust. But be honest: >> do >> >> these languages provide nearly as many reasons to choose them? >> >> I'm not being deprecatory. >> > >> > I don't know about Julia nor Elixir, but Dart has Flutter, Golang >> > drives a good chunk of the high-availability internet and Rust is >> > becoming the most secure programming language and several critical >> > applications are being rewritten in Rust. >> > >> > Their user base is huge (and so is their funding), but it's not only >> > about funding, the reasons to choose them are a lot, there is no >> > silver bullet. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Esteban A. Maringolo >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
