Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)(blog.lorenzano.eu)
56 pointsby mpweiher5 hours ago7 comments
  • melvinroest3 hours ago
    I've been at ESUG a few years ago. I can definitely recommend it if you want access to all kinds of Smalltalk and Pharo experts, and listen to all kinds of topics that contain a high amount of expertise.

    I remember that I wanted a visual step by step debugger for a visualization library [1]. I was lucky enough to find the library maintainer himself. He liked the idea, and within just 30 to 60 minutes we programmed a prototype in (this was around ChatGPT 3.5, so pure hand coding).

    [1] https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Roassal

  • diegof793 hours ago
    Happy to see something related to ESUG so up in HN.

    Smalltalk still has a small group of passionate people who love the language, the environment, and its concepts.

    For some reason, Buenos Aires has a “large” group of Smalltalkers (large relative to the total, which is small in absolute terms). This group usually organizes the ESUG event in Argentina with very few sponsors.

    • spooneybarger2 hours ago
      It's taught in at least one of the universities there.
    • masijoan hour ago
      I attend the National University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires, where my first OOP course was taught in Smalltalk, specifically CUIS [1]. It was a lot of fun and a very nice introduction to object-oriented thinking.

      As a curiosity, there are two "competing" sections for this subject: one that uses CUIS and the other one uses Wollok[2] (an in-house language). It's funny to discuss which one is better with classmates.

      [1]: https://cuis.st/

      [2]: https://www.wollok.org/

  • ape4an hour ago
    Its odd that some words have a squiggly red underline in that image.
  • mring3362114 minutes ago
    no pictures of the IDE?
  • himinlomax40 minutes ago
    I just had a realization: I've been hearing and reading about Smalltalk and how great (though slow) it was for the past 30 years … but I've never once seen an application, let alone a killer one.

    Well, except for development environments.

    Anyone know one that's worth looking at?

  • bemtevi3 hours ago
    Now it seems there are two editors named Pulsar. This, and the successor to Atom.
  • bobsanchez2 hours ago
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