Anyone knows why Sophie was migrated from Squeak/Smalltalk to Java?

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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?

[1] http://prezi.com/

Cheers,

Offray
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On 22 June 2011 19:27, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[hidden email]> wrote:
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).


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Date: 22 June 2011 22:24
Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Anyone knows why Sophie was migrated from
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On 22 June 2011 19:27, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[hidden email]> wrote:
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).


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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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: