June 2026 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

A note on the Pharo 14 release

by Esteban Lorenzano

Hello Pharo users and developers, You may have noticed that our usual AprilâMay release did not happen this yea. We wanted to explain why Pharo 14 has been delayed, and why we are still not quite at the point where we want to release it. There is not much mystery: we got very ambitious about what we wanted to include. We are still finishing a few important pieces that we believe need to be part of this release, as they will provide foundations for the next development cycle. Here is a non-exhaustive list of what we are aiming to include: * Massive changes in the VM (v12) * Migration to SDL3 as the backend * Alexandria, as a future replacement for Athens * A Bloc preview â yes! * Toplo, the new widget set based on Bloc, and a SpecâToplo preview * And many other things that are not polished enough yet So, yes, we are disappointed not to have met our usual release cycle. But we believe the extra time will be worth it â once we get there :) Cheers, Esteban

June 26, 2026

Re: [Pharo-dev] An Inference engine inside Pharo for LLMs

by S Krish

Great work. Will try it out sometime ahead. My notes from few months back: """ Pharo can offer new possibilities . LLM : processing of intent into code sent to pharo agents. All of non deterministic/ deterministic logic that is transformed to code to operate on input data Pharo agents: live environment that compiles in fraction of seconds.. perhaps milliseconds. Runs instant unit tests. Distribute verified runtime patch to other agents .. rather than messy library for everything like java/ python scaffold everything from its memory Object datastore: zero impedance non relational exactly mapped object data store with all of ACID properties if needed """ On Fri, 26 Jun, 2026, 03:20 omar abedelkader, <omar.abedelkader(a)inria.fr> wrote: > Hello everyone, for the first time, we have the first prototype of an > inference engine without any connection to any of the external provider > like Ollama, LMStudio, or vLLM. > > [image: pharo-infer.png] > > pharo-llm/pharo-infer: pharo-infer is a inference engine inside Pharo > <https://github.com/pharo-llm/pharo-infer> > github.com <https://github.com/pharo-llm/pharo-infer> > <https://github.com/pharo-llm/pharo-infer> > > > > [image: Capture dâeÌcran 2026-06-25 aÌ 23.40.41.png] > â > OA > >

June 26, 2026

An Inference engine inside Pharo for LLMs

by omar abedelkader

Hello everyone, for the first time, we have the first prototype of an inference engine without any connection to any of the external provider like Ollama, LMStudio, or vLLM. https://github.com/pharo-llm/pharo-inferï¿¼ pharo-llm/pharo-infer: pharo-infer is a inference engine inside Pharo github.com ï¿¼ â OA

June 25, 2026

ANN: pharo bindings for QREncode

by Esteban Lorenzano

Hello, Looking for small examples for (one of) my ESUG talks, I generate bindings forÂ this small tool: https://fukuchi.org/en/works/qrencode/ You can have things like this: https://github.com/pharo-cig/pharo-libqrencode I think it can be pretty useful :) Cheers ! Esteban

June 22, 2026

UKSTUG Meeting: Koen De Hondt - Behaviour-Driven Development with Hera - 24 June 2026

by UK Smalltalk

At ESUG 2025, Hera ( https://github.com/koendehondt/hera-for-pharo ) was introduced as a BDD framework bringing full Gherkin expressiveness to Pharo. Since then, Hera has evolved significantly â both as a framework and as a tool adopted in real-world industrial settings. After a brief introduction to Gherkin ( https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference ) for writing given-when-then scenarios, various aspects of Hera will be highlighted. A functional overview will set the scene, followed by a dive into the code to show how Hera maps Gherkin features and scenarios to Smalltalk classes and methods. During a live demo, example Gherkin scenarios for a simple Pharo Spec application will be written to explain the full scenario development cycle. Koen De Hondt ( https://be.linkedin.com/in/koendehondt ) has used Smalltalk since 1988, first as a student, then as an academic researcher, and then in industry. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1998). In the nineties and a few years after the turn of the century, he was one of the driving forces behind the Belgian Smalltalk User Group (BSUG). In that time frame, he presented at ESUG conferences several times. In 2003, he left the Smalltalk community for other adventures. In 2023, he returned to the Smalltalk scene and started all: objects all: theTime ( https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/ ). He has been an active contributor to Pharo ever since. Software development tools are his main interest. He is the main author of the book âApplication Building with Spec 2.0â ( https://books.pharo.org/BuildingApplicationsWithSpec/ ). This will be an online meeting. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/313860369/ ) to receive the meeting details.

June 18, 2026

ESUG 2026 Attendees | Tech Awards

by Noury Bouraqadi

Hi Fellow Smalltalkers, Are you attending ESUG 2026 in Plovdiv? Time to submit your project to the Tech Awards https://esug.org/2026-Conference/callForAwards.html It's a great opportunity to share work, get feedback, and why not win a prize. See you in Plovdiv, Noury Bouraqadi

June 10, 2026

"Logging Interactions with the Iris MCP Server" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime

by Koen De Hondt

Dear Pharo users and developers, I posted the fourth article in a series about using AI in Pharo development. After building the MCP server and pair programming with Claude to write code in a Pharo image, I decided to add logging to the MCP server to keep an eye on what Claude is doing. https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/27 As always, all feedback is welcome. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

June 3, 2026