I like the idea of it. I recently tried out Pharo with a simple, achievable goal in any language worth using these days: fetch a document from a website, parse

I like the idea of it. I recently tried out Pharo with a simple, achievable goal in any language worth using these days: fetch a document from a website, parse it, and display all the href's with titles. It was a very pleasing experience! I basically evaluated the code I'd expect to use to fire up this application in a scratch area. Naturally it didn't work. It dropped me into an interactive debugging session. From there I just started writing and compiling the missing methods and objects. I kept doing this until my original evaluation just started working. No recompilations or context switches between editors and compilers and the like. Best of all I could just close down the image and take a break. When I booted it back up everything was right where I left it. If given the opportunity to use it on a project I'd give it a shot. It was one of the most refreshing computing experiences I've had since I got hooked on Common Lisp.