Well, I must say, my article really touched off a firestorm of controversy. The Reddit thread is *very* active! Hacker News is also fairly lively. This is where all of you do battle with the naysayers and critics.
From my standpoint, my article did its job. It served as a lightning rod to draw in developers from all over the world, from every other programming language. *Now that we have their attention*, our job is to try our best to persuade them.
If we can "sell" Smalltalk to enough people, we gain mindshare. Companies may hear about Smalltalk and possibly include it in their internal IT discussions. Smalltalk may even get back on the TIOBE language index! We must keep the public discourse alive. I encourage you to blog about it, write articles about it, comment on social media sites, etc. Because once things settle down, they will /forget/ about Smalltalk...again. horrido wrote
Yes, I posted to both Reddit and Hacker News simultaneously. Looks like it has a slower uptake at Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856503 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856503>
Is it possible that I've finally succeeded in igniting a revolution? I feel like Che Guevara.
sebastian@flowingconcept.com wrote
It was posted already on Hacker News or Reddit?
If not, it sounds like is the right time to do that
On Jan 8, 2015, at 5:03 PM, horrido <
horrido.hobbies@
> wrote:
WHOA! My article is *ON FIRE!* Seven hours into publication and it has achieved a staggering 2.7K views, 1.1K reads, and 9 recommendations. It's catching up to my best article ever, " The Case for Go Web Frameworks <https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-case-for-go-web-frameworks-a791fcd79d47 <https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-case-for-go-web-frameworks-a791fcd79d47>> ", which had 3.9K views and 2.4K reads.
Who would've thought that Smalltalk would be such a hot topic?! I am truly flabbergasted.
In
the 3 hours
since this article was published at Medium, it has garnered
178 views
and
96 reads
horrido wrote * * * * * *
, and counting! This makes it easily the most "hot" article I've ever written. It is currently at the top of Medium's front page <https://medium.com/>; which is reserved for "hot" or "trending" articles.
Thanks to everyone! horrido wrote
https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-smalltalk-revolution-ee245c281f51 <https://medium.com/@richardeng/the-smalltalk-revolution-ee245c281f51>;
I welcome your comments. It's not too late to edit the piece.
Thanks.
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