2016-10-02 10:57 GMT-03:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com>:
> By the way I am all for COM for Pharo, the issue is that 2/3 of our
> community are MacOS and Linux users , I dont even remember the last time we
> had a Windows only topic in the mailing list. Modern languages generally
> avoid using OS specific libraries, the last exceptions be C# and Swift and
> C# definetly looks like it will be fully cross platform soon enough (it
> already is because of Mono).

I wouldn't state such affirmations without a proper surveying.

My latest survey related with RDBMS support [1] showed that the users
of Windows are on par with the users of MacOS.

I am a Windows user, who runs most of the Pharo images inside Linux
VMs not because I don't want to run them in Windows, but because the
current support of Windows is somewhat limited.

Having COM support for Pharo in a Windows environment would be a big
enabler to a lot of current users of Smalltalk that don't use Pharo.

Esteban A. Maringolo

[1] https://medium.com/@emaringolo/pharo-rdbms-support-survey-results-9c8f640878db#.ym049enul