>You're very much parading your ignorance. And you very much missed the whole point. I know all of those resources, I've programmed in Smalltalk in the past, a

>You're very much parading your ignorance. And you very much missed the whole point. I know all of those resources, I've programmed in Smalltalk in the past, as I have on many other languages (4-5 of them professionally). I also follow Kays projects of late. All of those you list are MARGINAL at best (--ten+ year old books and projects that limbo around). I mean, "Many projects buzzing with activity"? There are probably more HAM radio enthusiasts that people involved in those projects. Compare Smalltalk "activity" with the activity behind C, C++ Objective-C, Javascript, Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, heck, even Scala. It's not even close. Some elementary investigation would reveal: 1) http://squeaksource.com/ http://squeaksource.com/ 2) http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners 3) http://www.pharo-project.org/community http://www.pharo-project.org/community 4) the 'quality tools' are generally acknowledged to comprise the finest IDE in existence. Just fire up a Smalltalk image and see for yourself. 5) http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html Finally, while many projects are buzzing with activity, there's certainly a need for an influx of new users.