* Being image based has traditionally been a problem for many, except now that VMWare and Xen allow you to pause your running Image, move it somewhere else and restart it running from the snapshot point, you now have for an operating system what Smalltalk has always had at an application level.
* One traditional problem with a Smalltalk Image is that it can be hard to reproduce - to get from scratch to where it has evolved to. Pharo is working hard to make a reproducible bootstrap that builds up from scratch using CI infrastructure.
* Squeak and Pharo are strong and responsive open source communities. In [pharo-dev] maillist you often see people report a problem and its fixed the next day.
* Traditional interpretive performance issues are mitigated by Cog's JIT compiler.
* Being image based has traditionally been a problem for many, except now that VMWare and Xen allow you to pause your running Image, move it somewhere else and restart it running from the snapshot point, you now have for an operating system what Smalltalk has always had at an application level.
* One traditional problem with a Smalltalk Image is that it can be hard to reproduce - to get from scratch to where it has evolved to. Pharo is working hard to make a reproducible bootstrap that builds up from scratch using CI infrastructure.
* Squeak and Pharo are strong and responsive open source communities. In [pharo-dev] maillist you often see people report a problem and its fixed the next day.
* Traditional interpretive performance issues are mitigated by Cog's JIT compiler.
* One traditional problem with a Smalltalk Image is that it can be hard to reproduce - to get from scratch to where it has evolved to. Pharo is working hard to make a reproducible bootstrap that builds up from scratch using CI infrastructure.
* Squeak and Pharo are strong and responsive open source communities. In [pharo-dev] maillist you often see people report a problem and its fixed the next day.
* Traditional interpretive performance issues are mitigated by Cog's JIT compiler.
A good discussion on where Smalltalk went wrong - more commercial than technical - can be found here... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsSmalltalkDead