Analogies don't work. Right :) I never used Pillar and have remote ideas about what it does or requires. From that perspective you appeal to wrong person. On your place i would be asking a guy who knows Pillar innards about it.

Forgive my ignorance.. but i am not omniscient.

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Second is: Pharo (and all smalltalks) is the place where supposedly impossible stuff can be developed, simply because it takes far less lines than anywhere else. No guarantees, but, at the rate we're dropping projects by the side of the road (and reinventing stuff multiple times over), we have manpower to spare :)

But that is orthogonal. It is possible to do anything on turing-complete environment. Taking shortcuts etc etc yadda yadda. Now do such statements alone can bring us anywhere closer to grand goals and grand projects?

Nope. Only hard day to day work could bring us there.. Not talks about how cool we are.