Tools need time to mature
as the English say you cannot have an omelette without braking some eggs
If as you say "left naked in cold desert" is what it takes to push Pharo
forward as fast as possible without compromising good design , then give me
all the pain I can take it.
Fact is Pharo would be nowhere near to what it is today without the work of
Moose team.
However as I am saying always we need more documentation, tools loose their
moldability the less documented they are. To paraphrase another person "
Documentation is not an obligation but is a necessity for success" . I love
these blog posts but I would be willing to sacrifice some of the
moldability to get documentation on how to use the tools and extend that
goes far beyond a handful of blog posts. Though my recent effort to learn
Unreal Engine which is made by team hundrends of time larger than the Moose
team shown me that more people != more / better documentation. Modern
software is suffering from 2 big curses
a) bad design, which was bad at the start but none never dared to improve
it in order to not brake backward compatibility or familiarity
b) and lack of documentation , good or bad.
With Moose at least we have got rid of the first one.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:02 AM Nicolas Anquetil <nicolas.anquetil(a)inria.fr>
wrote:
Hi,
I beleive the complains were not about the usefulness of moldability,
but rather the stability of the tools.
The debugger is a central piece of Pharo and when it breaks we are left
naked out in the desert (a very cold one).
nicolas
On 04/06/2016 18:45, Tudor Girba wrote:
Hi,
There were a couple of emails in the recent period that questioned the
usefulness
of moldability (the ability of developers to customize their
tools deeply and inexpensively). More specifically, the question was about
the moldability of the GTDebugger.
I put together a couple of thoughts of why we think that moldability is
actually a
competitive advantage:
http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/the-impact-of-moldability/
Please read it and provide feedback.
Cheers,
Doru
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