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No, the installation of Pharo is not large its actually small
by Dimitris Chloupis Nov. 2, 2016

Nov. 2, 2016

So No, the Pharo installation is not large its actually small . You think I am joking ? Ok lets take a look at some of the most popular programming languages out there 1) Pharo = 100 MBs 2) Cuis = 70 MBs 3) Python = 100MBs 4) Java = 120 MBbs 5) .NET = 240Mbs 6) Ruby , source code folder alone 92mb , with build 200mbs 7) Javascript , Firefox = 200 MBs and it does not stop there, because none of the above is similar to Pharo, they dont come with IDEs so lets take a look at programming languages packaged with IDEs 1) Visual Studio (C++, C#, Visual Basic etc) 7 GBs 2) XCode (ObjC, Swift , C/C++ [clang]) 13 GBs 3) Delphi = 2 GBs ( not including .NET) 4) Gambas , source code alone 60 MBs (Visual Basic 6 free software clone) , cant build it on MacOS 5) Cygwin , ranges from 100 mbs to 100 GBs Of course that does not mean that extremely small installs do not exist, they do An example is Lua, the Lua executable is only 300 KBs (300 times smaller than Pharo) but its super bare bones (no IDE, no GUI , no GUI API, no standard library, no version control, pretty much nothing)

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[ANN] Pharo By Example 5.0
by Dimitris Chloupis Nov. 1, 2016

Nov. 1, 2016

As promised I released PBE5.0 just now, which basically puts a tag to our github repository to mark the beginning of version 5 and also provided a release in a fork of separate downloads for the book and the repository itself which anything that is required to build the book. If you want just to read , downloading the pdf is enough. You can get the release from here https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/UpdatedPharoByExample/releases/t… Unfortunately I was not able to port the Reflection chapter , it needs a ton of work , probably a complete rewrite but since its a late chapter and we already have achieved a 80% updating I think it was the right time now that pharo 7 is starting developing . Still till PBE6.0 we have a long way to go but I think we can get there far easier than we got from PBE1.4 to PBE5.0. The rest of the details are in the link. Salute to fellow Guardians of the Light :)

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