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You have just explained to me why I keep returning to Pharo over the years. I play with it, and always seem to walk away with a more connected, deeper understan
by eggy 8y ago
You have just explained to me why I keep returning to Pharo over the years. I play with it, and always seem to walk away with a more connected, deeper understanding or sense of deep organization that I have not experienced with other languages/environments. The only thing is I have not been able to go beyond toy programs in Smalltalk, or utilities for work (I use Storyboard to keep track of my projects at work, since the company's system Vision by Deltek is too complicated, and we don't have full access to its utilities).
- scroot 8y agoI think the new graphics layer (Bloc) will help with this. It's already a huge mental leap to understand what's going on when someone first boots up a Smalltalk environment. The current look of the system doesn't help things.
- eggy 8y agoI thought Bloc was low level like Morphic. If not, I'll have to look into Bloc. I have been using Moose for my data viz needs, and playing with Pharo. I love GT (the Glamorous Toolkit)[1]. Will that be affected by Bloc? Smalltalk, Pharo in my case, is always refreshing and surprising. I have just not learned it enough to build anything complex yet, but that's on me. It's a great environment. [1] https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit
- scroot 8y agoYes it's a replacement for Morphic, but it also allows for more modern 2D graphics. The new GToolkit alpha is actually built in Bloc.