Sorry I meant "Do you seriously believe people will give *up* JS for Amber alternatives ? " On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:03 PM, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
I was talking mainly about the IDE and other areas where Pharo and Amber overlap. I think Amber is awesome for what it is and should be kept developed independently.
"If your ass is being kicked by AngularJS <https://angularjs.org/> or Meteor <https://www.meteor.com/> because you reach the goal faster using those, your next contract is not to be powered by Amber."
is this not the cases if you cannot beat them join them ? Do you seriously believe Amber or Pharo can compete AngularJS , correct me if I am wrong, when behind this framework is Google itself ?
"In regard to Pharo, becoming Amber friendly is âattracting javascript people to the smalltalk worldâ are you joking? is the best marketing strategy Pharo can dream about!"
Did I said anything against that ? I agree that is great.
"With some add ons Amber can do the things Meteor does in the front end."
Thats all great but again I ask why not leverage the power of Meteor.js for Amber and Pharo in the first place and sprinkle it with some smalltalk libraries to bring it closer to Smalltalk philosophy ? Isnt this the whole point of doing OOP, to reuse code ?
Why should it be Amber / Pharo vs the Others ? Instead as "Amber a way to make your favorite javascript libraries even easier and more accessible / dynamic"
Do you seriously believe people will give JS for Amber alternatives ?
No thats not a best marketing strategy.