I'm not sure that's the case. I used that line a lot when I was the Smalltalk Evangelist at Cincom, and it's true - up to a point. However, the prospective developer who looks at the tools from a personal use standpoint cares. So -- the not quite "standard" widgets in VisualWorks make him think -- the "all in one windows" thing in Pharo and Squeak make him think I don't think those are complete showstoppers, but they are hurdles - and they are additional hurdles the Smalltalk community doesn't need. Consider that we already present two big hurdles that we require people to get past: -- The prospective user can't use his favorite editor -- The prospective user can't use his favorite source code control tools the UI hurdle is something that could be dealt with (and yes, I recognize the difficulties). The last two are just there. Given that, the additional UI level one should be considered more seriously On Oct 29, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Geert Claes wrote:
Valloud, Andres wrote:
One such difficult problem would be to make a visually compelling UI framework, fully capable of supporting and deploying real production applications.
This becomes much less of an issue since most development - I know not all:) - is moving to the web.
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