I guess there are not enough Pharo-aware people on the planet to fit this :-)

There, the choice is going to be Java.

Now, except when working with decent tools like Jetbrains' IntelliJ (don't get me started with Eclipse), it is really annoying to type. I am even a reseller of these products FWIW.

Other than that it is a fine language. And cool people do cool things with it, like AOT (Ahead of Time) compilers.�http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jet.html�or the JRockitVM (from the ashes of BEA)�http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/jrockit/overview/index.html

If we could get an instrumented VM like that, well...

For manifesting ideas out of my head, I do prefer Pharo. As a self-employed individual, more power to me. As a startup junkie, more power to me. If I need a Java or .NET guy, I've plenty of contacts in cheap countries who do work very very well.

And f*ck Ruby on Rails. Now, I said it.

As I am currently reading Andres Valloud books, and trying out the exercises, man, what do I know about how to make decent enough code. Close to nothing it seems. That is what is great in Pharo, a community of great minds. That you do not find often in a huge crowd as the chatter is too loud.

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Phil