We have too many Bill Gatesâs and too few Steve Jobsâs. âuglification of the world - itâs a universal trendâ (Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984). Smalltalk community suffers from too few people in general. For every 10000 âokâ worker you need one genius visionary to turn things upside down. Itâs always going to be a struggle. Feeling like being philosophical this morning...
On May 10, 2019, at 06:31, Richard Kenneth Eng <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com> wrote:
So say many visitors to https://amber-lang.net/learn.html.
The problem is this: visitors are failing to read and comprehend the last instruction on the first page of the tutorial. The one that reads: Select the text below and click on the 'DoIt' button.
They're not selecting the text. They do not understand what is meant by "select the text below."
So they immediately encounter a parse error and conclude that the tutorial is broken. This is a horrible, horrible first impression for Smalltalk.
It's not a rare occurrence, either. I've received this complaint numerous times on Quora and Medium.
So the question is: How to fix this? How to avoid this PR nightmare?