A wonderful blogpost from @Gilad_Bracha on why Smalltalk never quite made it big. Probably depressing for insiders, but certainly interesting for those of us looking closely from the outside in. https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html …
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If smalltalk really makes it easier and cheaper to develop software, is there evidence for that in business or product success?
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The Smalltalk vendors have their customer success stories (Kapital etc.). But I'd turn it around: is there any evidence that mainstream software development makes any sense at all? In any case, working with Smalltalk is at the very least much more pleasant.
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Replying to @Gilad_Bracha @MarcJBrooker and
Have you seen
@tomaspetricek's essay on living with errors? What is pleasant to ones may be alien and disturbing to others. Hence why Smalltalk or Lisp can't become mainstream. The question then: can the many psychological types be made to cooperate meaningfully to all?1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Ngnghm @MarcJBrooker and
Yes, what is pleasant to some maybe unpleasant for others. It doesn't follow that Smalltalk or Lisp cannot be mainstream; Python and Javascript are mainstream, and have technical advantage (on the contrary). You can combine: optional typing & liveness etc.
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In Computing as in Chemistry, energy barriers determine how fast programmers adopt or leave a language community, and thus what proportion remain at any moment. Python and JS have lower barrier to entry than Lisp or Smalltalk. As once Perl or PHP had.
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