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Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps? For example, I mak

Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps? For example, I make use of Plan 9 daily, and I don't really give a whip if anyone else thinks it's worth anything at all. I also use Emacs lisp in pretty strange ways (automating workflows by cross-querying REST services in ways I used to do by hand). I've even demonstrated it for coworkers, and I think some of them may be using the same techniques, but I'm not sure, and I don't care. If they have questions about it, I'll answer them. If not, they can say "that guy's weird", and I'm totally fine with that. Outnerd the nerds I say! Let your freak flag fly! In all seriousness I encourage people to write some code. Play around! Share your experiences. It's good for you and everyone else to foster new ideas and be innovative. It's especially good if the technology in question is surrounded by a welcoming community. It provides an additional sense of belonging to something, and who knows you might just actually enjoy yourself! You've got the first spark of curiosity, now you've just got to stoke the flames, or not!

scotty79 5y ago
> Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? It's easier to learn to love something if you see how other people love it.
ramesh31 5y ago
>Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps? Not making a value judgement. I agree that it doesn't need any more reason to exist than for its own sake. But I'm just genuinely curious what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting.
- rscho 5y ago
  > what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting. Pretty much, the ultimate quick-and-dirty prototyping engine, especially for GUI projects. In the sense that you're prototyping largely from scratch, not cobbling myriads of huge libs. So, ball of mud. Not brick wall.
  - igouy 5y ago
    Sculpting clay. Funny thing. Back-in-the-day Smalltalks were attractive because the source code was included to be studied and re-used (When that wasn't true of many other development tools).

scotty79 5y ago

> Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? It's easier to learn to love something if you see how other people love it.

ramesh31 5y ago

>Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps? Not making a value judgement. I agree that it doesn't need any more reason to exist than for its own sake. But I'm just genuinely curious what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting.

rscho 5y ago
> what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting. Pretty much, the ultimate quick-and-dirty prototyping engine, especially for GUI projects. In the sense that you're prototyping largely from scratch, not cobbling myriads of huge libs. So, ball of mud. Not brick wall.
- igouy 5y ago
  Sculpting clay. Funny thing. Back-in-the-day Smalltalks were attractive because the source code was included to be studied and re-used (When that wasn't true of many other development tools).