On Feb 12, 2015, at 10:12, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

All of the above frameworks have tons of users so one thing that this shows us is that fragmentation is really beneficial to a community. The reason is simple,

GUI is so complex subject but there will never be one ring to rule them all. Many have tried, all of them have failed.  

I don���t agree. If we would have more than 10 developers working on GUI frameworks in Pharo this may be the case. But we don���t have this number. If we are very lucky we may have 4.

I would rather have 4 persons pulling a large cart in the same direction, instead of 4 of them pulling their own cart (1/4th the size) in more-or-less the same direction (if at all) as the other guys. In the first case a lot more progress will be made. If there is something wrong with the cart, fix it! Do not waste all this time building your own.

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