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Pharo is the most actively developed and used Smalltalk environment. There’s plenty of evangelism and information on the Web about it in a similar way to Lisp.
by snazz 8y ago
Pharo is the most actively developed and used Smalltalk environment. There’s plenty of evangelism and information on the Web about it in a similar way to Lisp. Pharo takes the “integrated” in IDE to a whole new level, which is one of its selling points. You can find plenty more information about how Smalltalk-style OOP is superior to Java-style OOP, so I won’t rehash that here.
- sigzero 8y ago> Pharo is the most actively developed and used Smalltalk environment. Is that true? VisualWorks isn't used more places? Where are you getting that information from?
- d-mason 8y agoOne of the key words in that statement was "actively developed". Cincom, Instantiations, and GemTalk have some great people working on them, but Pharo7 had 75 different people contributing - including probably almost as many full-time people as the commercial developers (maybe more).
- sigzero 8y agoI love Pharo, so don't take this as me trying to take anything away. Cincom "actively develops" VW as well. I keep in touch with that side just for my own information. Pharo is doing a phenomenal job.
- collyw 8y agoI didn't get that it was a version of Smalltalk from the linked page. I have heard of Smalltalk and it does get a lot of positive attention.