2014-09-16 13:14 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:

Don't worry/don't bother with thoses: you will never use Smalltalk or a VM :) It will never be certified by authorities, and the industry will never accept it.

You are probably right for those two examples, but there are other not-so-regulated domains where real-time is useful - e.g. industrial automation and robotics.

Real-time is usefull there, yes. But Smalltalk and Cog will never get there. Except as a DSL / code generator tool (which means a MDE approach, more or less).

(And code generation is where Pharo to C or LLVM-IR gets us interested)

Dynamic optimisations, lack of static typing: they will laugh you out in any of those fields.

Even if their developpers use Python behind their back.

Thierry