We appreciate all of the feedback that's come in - positive, negative, and otherwise. We understand that the decision announced here yesterday on Widgetry was a difficult one to understand, and we realize that our customers and community are going to have a variety of opinions on the matter. I'd like to take the time to do two things:

• This decision is not in any way meant as a slam on Sam Shuster, who was the main (usually the only) developer for Widgetry. Sam put in a lot of effort, and that is appreciated - even if it doesn't look like it right now
• Cincom Smalltalk will be moving forward, with incremental improvements in the existing UI tools and frameworks. For instance: here's a screen shot of the updated inspector, running on my Mac:

Other improvements will be coming, sooner rather than later. The largest mistake we made over the last few years with Widgetry was not working to build tools in it as we built out the framework. That's not a mistake we will make again.

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