> > Operating System: An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.

Squeak/Pharo and Smalltalk in general never took off (and it’s unlikely they ever will) because of this mindset.

I dabbled a bit with pharo and this mindset became evident pretty much immediately.

The thing is: for many things pharo/squeak are really shitty runtimes (think smp/threading, high-throughput or low-latency i/o, network protocols support etc). But the OS is generally great in that sense.

Smalltalk is nice but it will never get past the “toy language” phase with that attitude.

Also: in terms of object database Versant OODBMS is much better :P