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I'm pretty sure the Pharo folks would say Smalltalk isn't dead yet. http://pharo.org/ http://pharo.org/ https://www.pharocloud.com/ https://www.pharocloud.com/
by protomyth 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the Pharo folks would say Smalltalk isn't dead yet. http://pharo.org/ http://pharo.org/ https://www.pharocloud.com/ https://www.pharocloud.com/
- coldtea 9y agoYes they could say it, but popularity and support wise it wouldn't mean much. Survived = at least at the same level of use as Ruby, Python, PHP, etc -- or at least Go and Rust.
- protomyth 9y agoI know its still used in several companies. One of which is quite busy this time of year. One of Smalltalk's big problems was the companies using it aren't very talkative about what they use. Smalltalk is in a lot of the back ends keeping things moving. Cincom and others still make a lot of cash off it.
- agumonkey 9y agoUnfair to compare to PHP and Ruby who blossomed because of the web. Go and Rust are recent and massively backed. I did a Pharo MOOC last year, ST is far from dead, it's "streets ahead" in many department its not even funny.
- hota_mazi 9y ago"isn't dead" is a very low bar. COBOL and Fortran are not dead as long as there's still at least one person on the planet writing code in it. "Failed to gain acceptance" is a more realistic criterion, and Lisp and Smalltalk clearly did that.