I think Paolo is right here. I presented Smalltalk to a bunch of Ruby user groups in 2009, and the reactions were pretty similar: "That's way cool (especially the debugger), but why can't I use (insert text editor or VCS here)" I'm not suggesting that we ditch the image; just that we recognize the hurdle there On Oct 29, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 10/29/2010 12:48 PM, Geert Claes wrote:
It sure cares! If the VCS doesn't allow easy integration of code with other kinds of assets (pictures, CSS, schemas expressed as DDL, etc.) and with other people on the team who work on those assets, developers _are_ going to complain.
That's why I said, "as long as it does the job" :)
Heh, so I was implying incorrectly that, as far as you were concerned, VCS that cared only about Smalltalk source did the job. :)
Regarding editors, it takes me a while to rewire my muscle memory from vi to mouse-based action in a Smalltalk browser ...
The biggest target audience are probably those who expect mouse-based (or touch gesture) interaction though
Not sure here... sure there's a lot of people using TextMate, but there's a lot of people using vi too. Anybody who had a past career as a sysadmin is likely to have picked it up---and likely stayed with it for Ruby/Python jobs too.
Paolo
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