I like it from a distance, but I don't really want to learn yet another thing that would be desktop/server only.
It's used for real application development. It's honestly a great environment for building software
As a cool example of an educational game created using Pharo, see the Pharo Chip Designer: https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/PharoChipDesigner/blob/mas...
I'm willing to be happy that there's also https://cuis.st/
Pharo 12 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167742 - April 2024 (112 comments)
Pharo 11 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900891 - May 2023 (180 comments)
How does find by example work in the Pharo Finder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31465945 - May 2022 (51 comments)
Pharo 10 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30917420 - April 2022 (110 comments)
Why Pharo Might Be the Future of Software Development (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29164507 - Nov 2021 (3 comments)
Pharo, not quite Smalltalk, possibly worse than VisualWorks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28286713 - Aug 2021 (11 comments)
Pharo 9 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842933 - July 2021 (226 comments)
Pharo Smalltalk Overview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893859 - July 2020 (50 comments)
Pharo 8.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098604 - Jan 2020 (95 comments)
Pharo 7.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18968116 - Jan 2019 (228 comments)
Why Pharo Might be the Future of Software Development (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18419366 - Nov 2018 (23 comments)
Pharo: An immersive programming experience - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18267445 - Oct 2018 (106 comments)
Pharo MOOC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754872 - April 2018 (107 comments)
Is This the Future of Software Development? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743691 - Nov 2017 (6 comments)
Pharo, the Modern Smalltalk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15399442 - Oct 2017 (171 comments)
Pharo – Quuve - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14756598 - July 2017 (10 comments)
Pharo 6.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14504244 - June 2017 (81 comments)
Pharo 5.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11690125 - May 2016 (50 comments)
Pharo 5.0 (the immersive, pure object oriented language and environment) is out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11684285 - May 2016 (6 comments)
Pharo: pure object-oriented programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669786 - May 2016 (8 comments)
Pharo Smalltalk IDE as Visualizer: Mondrian in Action [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505759 - Nov 2015 (33 comments)
Pharo Ephemeric Cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9951605 - July 2015 (9 comments)
Pharo at Beta Nine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9648155 - June 2015 (21 comments)
Pharo 4.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9386775 - April 2015 (79 comments)
Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9023138 - Feb 2015 (19 comments)
Phratch: A port of Scratch on Pharo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780757 - May 2014 (12 comments)
Smalltalk and Pharo: Unknown rockstars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7736111 - May 2014 (5 comments)
Pharo 3.0 (the immersive live environment) Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673462 - April 2014 (15 comments)
Pharo: A malleable and powerful platform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542599 - Oct 2013 (50 comments)
Pharo 2.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393553 - March 2013 (72 comments)
Pharo Smalltalk 2.0 Progress - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212523 - July 2012 (2 comments)
Pharo 1.4 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3866799 - April 2012 (2 comments)
Pharo/Squeak Tips - Counting lines of code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2123377 - Jan 2011 (2 comments)
Pharo Open Source Smalltalk Release 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1268224 - April 2010 (13 comments)
Pharo: a Smalltalk VM that doesn't look like a toy out of the box - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=787363 - Aug 2009 (17 comments)