Hi, thanks kilon for sharing your Python experience ;-) I really enjoy listening to people that discover Pharo "recently".
Thank you all! #Luc 2013/12/6 kilon alios <[email protected]> > Well I tried pharo just for fun , I knew it would not last. Pharo is > unpopular, not enough libraries, small community , not nearly enough > documentation. Pharo was nothing more than a little break from python. > After all we all know smalltalk is dead , right ? The plan was simple, > have fun with Pharo , steal some ideas, go back to python where you can get > things done. Little did I know. Several months later here I am. I still > have not found the reason to give up on Pharo, my questions have been > answered , found many great libraries to work with and the documentation is > getting better and better. > > Overall my experience is way better than I predicted. Pharo is turning > into the environment I always wanted to have. Its so unique that I just > cant compare it with anything else, and the uniqueness is not just in > details, its almost everywhere. I am so addicted to live coding that I cant > see myself going back to the old way. This is the future of coding. > > I only wish the best for Pharo , not for me but for you guys, you work > hard for it and you deserve it. Thank you :) > > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for your warm words (because sometimes I would like so much to >> improve pharo even more that I'm down). >> We have a great team (I do not want to list names because I do not want >> to forget someone). >> >> Stef >> >> > Maybe others noticed the same: >> > >> > - the numbers of closed issues is amazing(see the news on the homepage) >> > - Pharo3.0 is already really usable and a pleasure to work with >> > - more and more nice projects appear on STHub and elsewhere >> > - more and more Pharo projects use continuous integration >> > - most projects and packages are loadable from the config browser and >> other places without >> > conflicting with each other >> > - there is so much activity regarding Pharo these days on mailinglists, >> bug-tracker, >> > twitter, conferences, blogs, stackoverflow, github ... it becomes >> hard to follow >> > but this is a good sign >> > - I see more and more fixes and improvements already as an update >> coming in before >> > I really realize that an own bug is needed because it improves the >> situation >> > - more and more new names appear on the dev and user mailinglist which >> is a good >> > sign that there is growing interest >> > - Pharo is on the right track and I like to be on the train >> > >> > Step by step it goes... >> > >> > Bye >> > T. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >
