Christoph, Am 23.02.2012 um 09:31 schrieb Christoph Wysseier:
Dear Andreas
Am 22.02.12 23:00, schrieb Andreas Wacknitz:
Am 22.02.2012 um 10:34 schrieb Janko Mivšek:
S, Christoph Wysseier piše:
Stéphane Ducasse:
I'm convinced that having support for multitouch event/ genie and others works (for iPad = $$$$) is important.
Without pretending to know the future, IMHO standalone apps for tablets and mobile will disappear over time. Out of my perspective it would be far more important to move in the direction of web-based technologies also in this area. Looking at the success stories of Pharo and our own strategy I do not see the advantages of having multi-touch support for the development of such applications.
I agree completely that web based techologies are where we should go because we have advantage here with Smalltalk while for any kind of GUI we are off. [stuff deleted]
I like Smalltalk the language for its orthogonality and power. If I hear a statement like "we should go<enter hype term here> because its the future!" I have the feeling that somebody wants some followers on his or her main area of interest.
Although I do not believe Web technolgies to be just a hype, it was not my intention at all to convince everyone working with Pharo to use it from now on for web applications only. There are of course several stakeholders with different business or community ideas. Nevertheless, as we and others are using Pharo as an IDE to develop web applications we need to be able to count on the support of the board and community that the further development considers our business model which does not lock out other ideas at all.
My message was not a reaction to your mail but to Janko's. I want Smalltalk (and especially Pharo) as an all purpose system. In my opinion it's a mistake to focus on a certain area like web technologies. And I guess as long as Pinesoft is doing well in business with traditional GUI's and INRIA is interested in research in dynamic languages (and not dynamic web languages) I don't have to fear that Pharo will go in that direction :-) Regards, Andreas