To really take advantage of its strengths, one needs to adopt to a completely new IDE and way of working, which puts a lot of people off. On the other hand, if

To really take advantage of its strengths, one needs to adopt to a completely new IDE and way of working, which puts a lot of people off. On the other hand, if it were adopted to behave like all other environments, there would be objections again, "It's exactly the same as what I'm using now. So why switch?" It should be added that Pharo addressed most of the small problems that the original Smalltalk had.