I know that several of guys too :) - politics - venture capitalists - Java has good and better widgets so difficult to fight - problem with management in the project (not from the programmers) - when I think I went to sofia to teach them oop..... oh man. What idiot I was. lot more a sad story. Now if we would all join effort to push a decent looking open-source smalltalk with good widgets and good properties (nice xxx framweorks, small image, C integration, better tools, connexion with DB....) then we would all cooler and our projects would get a chance not to be rewritten in Java. Stef On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

On 22 June 2011 19:27, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray@riseup.net> wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm searching for inspiration about my Pharo project (I want to make something like Prezi[1]). So I was revisiting the Sophie project pages and an old question came back: Why Sophie was migrated from Squeak/Smalltalk to Java? Anyone could help me with the answers?

Short answer: because smalltalk is not mainstream language.

(heh... i know the guy who can give you an extended answer, with a lots of explanations what he thinks gone wrong with Sophie and why management choosen to migrate to java).

-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.