I beg to differ. I believe it is possible to re-energize Smalltalk. I believe /marketing/ is the key.
Read https://medium.com/@richardeng/yes-it-is-allow-me-to-explain-dbd33ef0ff21 I've always known this was an uphill battle. Ultimately, you may be right, but I choose to be more optimistic. My philosophy is that it's better to have tried and failed, then to not have tried at all. Pavel Krivanek-3 wrote > st 5. 2. 2020 v 20:42 odesílatel horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > napsal: > >> > It is your initiative, you should know, nobody asked you to do it >> >> Well, that's a peculiar attitude. There are many, many programming >> language >> evangelists and I don't think anybody "asked" them to do it. They do it >> for >> the love of the language. >> >> I hear what you're saying, and I understand fully. I just don't agree >> with >> it entirely. >> >> I think it's short-sighted. Smalltalk has long been criticized for being >> a >> secluded island, and now you want to do the same for Pharo? Even as I try >> to >> build bridges to the island? >> >> You could ban everybody from this forum who aren't focussed 100% on Pharo >> and you'd have a much smaller community. You could ban everybody who is a >> Smalltalker. The result is a much more tightly focussed forum, clean and >> free from distractions. Fine. But what is the long-term cost? >> >> Smalltalk evangelism would come to an end. Why? Because frankly nobody is >> interested in the other Smalltalks. Pharo is where all the action is. >> >> And without Smalltalk evangelism, I don't see a path for Pharo becoming >> more >> than a niche language. Pharo doesn't show up an *any* language popularity >> index. At least Clojure, Erlang/Elixir, and Haskell are in the top 30 in >> several places. >> >> At Indeed, there are 18 job postings in the United States that mention >> Smalltalk, and none for Pharo. Even Clojure has 404, Erlang has 274, and >> Haskell has 519, pathetic though these numbers are. >> >> Yes, I also understand that there are many Pharoers who don't care about >> remaining niche. That's a tragedy. >> >> I would rather not have wasted the last five years of my life. >> > > Sorry to say that but you wasted the last five years of your life. Google > trends for Smalltalk: > > [image: chrome_JbORSPVuGv.png] > > Smalltalk is dead. Dead and no-one can change it. It is an interesting > historical curiosity. You are trying to sell a dead horse. > And yes, Pharo is an irrelevant niche language and it is very unlikely > that > it will change in future. It definitely will not change If it will be > promoted the way you do that. > > -- Pavel > > >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> >> > > > chrome_JbORSPVuGv.png (11K) > <http://forum.world.st/attachment/5111235/0/chrome_JbORSPVuGv.png> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
