Well I tried pharo just for fun , I knew it would not last. Pharo is unpopular, not enough libraries, small community , not nearly enough documentation. Pharo was nothing more than a little break from python. After all we all know smalltalk is dead , right ? �The plan was simple, have fun with Pharo , steal some ideas, go back to python where you can get things done. Little did I know. Several months later here I am. I still have not found the reason to give up on Pharo, my questions have been answered , found many great libraries to work with and the documentation is getting better and better.�

Overall my experience is way better than I predicted. Pharo is turning into the environment I always wanted to have. Its so unique that I just cant compare it with anything else, and the uniqueness is not just in details, its almost everywhere. I am so addicted to live coding that I cant see myself going back to the old way. This is the future of coding.�

I only wish the best for Pharo , not for me but for you guys, you work hard for it and you deserve it. Thank you :)



On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:33 PM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Thanks for your warm words (because sometimes I would like so much to improve pharo even more that I'm down).
We have a great team (I do not want to list names because I do not want to forget someone).

Stef

> Maybe others noticed the same:
>
> - the numbers of closed issues is amazing(see the news on the homepage)
> - Pharo3.0 is already really usable and a pleasure to work with
> - more and more nice projects appear on STHub and elsewhere
> - more and more Pharo projects use continuous integration
> - most projects and packages are loadable from the config browser and other places without
> � conflicting with each other
> - there is so much activity regarding Pharo these days on mailinglists, bug-tracker,
> � twitter, conferences, blogs, stackoverflow, github ... it becomes hard to follow
> � but this is a good sign
> - I see more and more fixes and improvements already as an update coming in before
> � I really realize that an own bug is needed because it improves the situation
> - more and more new names appear on the dev and user mailinglist which is a good
> � sign that there is growing interest
> - Pharo is on the right track and I like to be on the train
>
> Step by step it goes...
>
> Bye
> T.
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