Re:Pharo MOOC
by e12e on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:29PM
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Sadly they got acqu-hired by twitter - and judging by some (not bad, just in lack of enthusiasm) comments, I got a sense that they sold dabbledb at peak technical/architectural debt...
It's a bit sad, I appeared to be a Google sheets meets office 365 flows on steroids before either was any good:
As I understand it, each customer got an image/vm - and data was just stored as Smalltalk objects. It'd been interesting to see where they might have gone if they coupled the dabbledb front end with gemstone/s.
It's a bit sad, I appeared to be a Google sheets meets office 365 flows on steroids before either was any good:
https://youtu.be/6wZmYMWKLkY
(i think that's from 2006 or so, archive.org has more info, but it's a bit painful to navigate on mobile)
Avi Bryant comments on hn from time to time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=avibryant
As I understand it, each customer got an image/vm - and data was just stored as Smalltalk objects. It'd been interesting to see where they might have gone if they coupled the dabbledb front end with gemstone/s.