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"Smalltalk with it's heavy reliance on GUI-based tools is not quite as easy to customize (for several reasons) ... before knickers get knotted, please keep in mind that I think that customizable GUI-based tools are important, it's just that the GUI raises the entry level bar a bit higher than it needs to be... "

I can't speak for others but I would say that for me is lack of documentation mainly, I am actually learning Rubric slowly, obviously I don't code in Pharo full time as some of you nor I have years of experience in my back, reading and understanding code is a slow process. If those tools were well documented there would be a lot more people hacking them and contributing to them since it would lower the steep learning curve quite substantially. But I can understand that Pharo has not the amount of people that for example emacs has to provide an in depth documentation about its tools and libraries and I try to help it to come one step closer.��

I don't think not having GUIs is a problem for me. I did not have issues working with Metacello . I actually recently started using Versioner and I use it for the simple stuff, have no issues falling back to metacello if I have to. Pharo puts��emphasis��on GUI but it should not be��viewed as a mandatory requirement. I am actually working on making Workspace behave similar to emacs with as less GUI as possible. There is even a tool to run a shell terminal inside Pharo and of course we should forget that Pharo runs from terminal too.��