Welcome to our Pharo island :)
*gives a flower necklace*
My central ideology about Pharo is that it is a waste of potential to remake libraries that exist in other languages unless we want to bring something new or something more specific.
Thus its a very good idea to use C/C++ libraries and libraries made for other programming languages from inside Pharo. I for instance use Python libraries from inside Pharo.
What I have found is that pharo is excellent as a central nervous system , Brain + nerves , for an application. Because not only the language is simple, but mostly because of live coding and ability of the IDE to deal with complex code and isolate bugs.
Live coding is pretty much the bread and butter for us graphics programmers (I use Pharo together with Unreal and Blender) because it allows us to test things on the fly without having to worry about compile times or syntax errors or crashes or whatever can interrupt us from "being in the zone". Pharo is without exaggeration the best live coding language out there by very far from others except Lisp which is the basis of Smalltalk and where we have borrowed many ideas.