> hernanmd wrote
>> I am not that convinced Smalltalk should be popular. Surely any
>> smalltalker
>> could find easily (more) job offers, that would be the only determinant
>> factor because we need desperately more Smalltalk positions. But
>> popularity
>> has many drawbacks.... some smalltalkers are afraid to competition, and we
>> all read the StackOverflow 'popular' questions...
>
> One of the chief reasons I would like Smalltalk to be more popular is to
> spur the expansion of the Pharo (Smalltalk) ecosystem, i.e., domain-specific
> class libraries. For example, I'm interested in A.I. and machine learning.
> This involves a great deal of statistical and numerical computing, an area
> where Pharo (Smalltalk) is not particularly strong. Python, on the other
> hand, has *fabulous* support for statistical and numerical computing, which
> frankly makes me very envious. The reason why Python has this is because of
> its vast user base, i.e., its /popularity/.
>
> There simply aren't enough Smalltalkers interested in statistical and
> numerical computing to develop such libraries.