RE: Future of Dolphin Survey

> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:48:17 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Future of Dolphin Survey
> 
> But before I pay, I'd like to know the specific
> advantages, that's all.
> 
> Sorry to make a fuss about this, but there's a general point here
> that needed addressing.

And a good and fair point it is, so back on Topic:

1) MVP.  Dolphin has, in my opinion the best GUI framework in Smalltalk.  Of course nothing but time/resources is stopping any Smalltalk from having this, but Dolphin has it right now, today.

2) EXE generator.  Dolphin keeps track of what classes the applications you build depend on.  I believe it can even do things like notice that two of your applications have common dependencies and turn these into DLLs (that is, I know it can make DLLs, I'm just not certain how manual it is).  So when you're ready to deploy you just "click the button" and you have a windows EXE complete with installer so your product looks no different then one written in <insert popular GUI building system>.  So if you're selling some application business isn't going to be worried that you're using Smalltalk, they wont know.  Again, nothing but time/resources stopping any Smalltalk from having this.

3) Speed.  Dolphin is purely interpreted.  No JIT, compiling straight to assembly, none of that.  Just a highly tuned VM and well tuned system that can uses some form of native threads to keep the GUI snappy.

4) Host windows for native feel.  Everyone says "it only runs on windows", but when it comes to native looking (and performing!) windows, no one else has them *anywhere*.  I'm not personally sold that native windows are they way to go at all, but Dolphin is the sole counter argument I have seen.

I'm sure there are other things, but this is what comes to my mind.  How good the GC is is another question, but at least one guy thinks it's quite good [1].

[1]  http://learningtotalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/screenshot-and-simple-timings.html

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