Tudor Girba-2 wrote
As we are a commercial entity, for us this is a business issue, not a hobby. This means that we have all incentives to finish things so that we can build what we actually want to build :).
This is good to hear. I share Marcus' concern. After (almost? about?) 10 years in the Smalltalk community, my unbridled enthusiasm about new game-changing projects has mellowed to keep-working-as-usual-and-"we'll see". For every contributor like Sven, who has created and maintained multiple essential libraries over years, there seem to be 10 projects that fizzle out after an initial period of excitement and activity. Nearly all my revolutionary (in my head anyway ha ha) plans were thwarted early on. At first I blamed our spaghetti Morphic implementation which I found impossible to deal with once one wants to do anything uncommon. It's interesting to note that Morphic is itself the victim of unending experimentation without the promised final cleanup into a clean, understandable, usable, sane? form. After so many years have passed, however, I think the bigger barrier was the illusion that something better was "right around the corner". Instead of slogging through or cleaning Morphic myself, I put everything on hold until Morphic 3, SimpleMorphic, TxText (slightly different, but related), Bloc⦠It will be nice to finally have something real to play with! Maybe the time is now⦠----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html