Can’t imagine myself ever coming remotely close to hating you. Big thanks to you and the rest of the community for keeping the dream alive and kicking. Looking back to 2011 when I first joined, Pharo has come a long way and nowadays it looks and is comparable to other far more popular languages and the fact our community is small is the ultimate proof of its high productivity. What makes me most happy with Pharo is that it has retained all the important parts of Smalltalk and also, even though I never did and never will hesitate for a second to compare Pharo to other languages and break the misconceptions - prejudice against them, Pharo for me has become a breath of fresh air, not afraid to follow its own path but at the same time not afraid of embracing the practical needs of coders struggling with finding bugs and retaining this direct connection with the machine instead of being lost inside its own massive complexity. Pharo has built a very solid yet flexible foundation that stands as the torch that keeps the flame alive and making Smalltalk more relevant to modern coders than ever before. It’s living proof that Smalltalk is not a relic of the past,an outdated philosophy, great in theory , bad in practice but a life form that is made of binary code like anything else but on the same time far more capable of surviving, adjusting , evolving and thriving in a world that accelerates to light speed in matters of technology and science even though the world still struggles with basic concepts. Like a real transformer , Pharo is technology from the future and there is definetly more than meets the eye. I wish health and happiness to all and as always Keep dreaming with open mind On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 at 11:28, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Torsten, I was about to write a similar mail.

Thanks to everybody for allow me to be your “guy to hate” :) I will continue doing my best to make Pharo a better place for everybody, one step at a time.

happy new year! Esteban

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On 29 Dec 2017, at 09:39, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:

Only a few days left for 2017. Thanks to all who helped shaping Pharos future. May the lighthouse be with you in 2018 as well:

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Have fun!

Bye T.

:) I like this kind of metrics :) I want more of them :) I wish everybody lot of success and business. Stef On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:

I want to second that. It has been another amazing year for pharo. And I think things have changed significantly. So 2018 should be really great! I matched my personal not-to-serious goal

# ps aux | grep pharo | wc -l 59

So I have 59 pharo images in production. Next step will be to exceed 100 in 2018! And yes, I’m definitely interested in a bootstrapped image ;)

Thank you all for your amazing work. We are a great community!

Norbert

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Am 29.12.2017 um 09:39 schrieb Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de>:

Only a few days left for 2017. Thanks to all who helped shaping Pharos future. May the lighthouse be with you in 2018 as well:

World backgroundImage: (ZnEasy getJpeg: 'https://spotlight.it-notes.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/02c48424be88ee36d53...') layout: #scaled

Have fun!

Bye T.

And all on one machine?! Wow. Happy New Year Bernhard

Am 31.12.2017 um 14:18 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name>:

I want to second that. It has been another amazing year for pharo. And I think things have changed significantly. So 2018 should be really great! I matched my personal not-to-serious goal

# ps aux | grep pharo | wc -l 59

So I have 59 pharo images in production. Next step will be to exceed 100 in 2018! And yes, I’m definitely interested in a bootstrapped image ;)

Thank you all for your amazing work. We are a great community!

Norbert