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The smalltalk development efforts on both squeak and pharo seem pretty dead. I went back for another crack at VisualWorks after this blog post. Part of the or
by smackeyacky 5y ago
The smalltalk development efforts on both squeak and pharo seem pretty dead. I went back for another crack at VisualWorks after this blog post. Part of the original frustration I had was just not being in a Smalltalk mode of working. I am enjoying it more and resumed work on the aws browser with more success after I relearned some old habits.
- Qem 5y agoIMHO both communities are small, but very active for their size. The only that appears "dead" for me is GNU-Smalltalk. At least the versions in Debian and Debian-based distro repositories look barely maintaned. I could not get their class browser working anymore. You can see lots of complaints about it on the web, and the issue persists for years.
- smackeyacky 5y agoOK - perhaps I didn't look hard enough - will go back through their links to forums etc.
- igouy 5y agoOn linux, I think the XFT parcels are a requirement for legible text on VW Smalltalk.
- smackeyacky 5y agoI didn't have any trouble with the legibility of the text on Debian Buster using Gnome. There are the occasional screen glitches with things like the tree view but mostly the experience on Windows and Linux is identical, which is the same as it was 25 years ago on Sun workstations.
- scroot 5y agoOn the contrary, both communities are very active. Pharo and Squeak both have active mailing lists with dozens of messages each day, and the Pharo community maintains a very lively Discord server