Hello Stephane :
Thank you for the welcome message.

> Second: our goal is to create an ecosystem around pharo...if you have...needs 
> for business or anything else just let us know. 


I'm a Mac OSX user and newcomer to SmallTalk and to Pharo. I have an 
uncomfortable feeling my question may entirely miss some significant point, 
whatever that is.

I'm puzzled why the only SmallTalk I've found which runs on the Mac, namely 
VisualWorks, has a GUI painter. However, compared to Xcode or even RealBasic 
(or Hypercard for that matter), the GUI painter seems remarkably primitive, 
given the length of time VisualWorks and SmallTalk, in general, have been under 
development.  

An up-to-date GUI builder with well designed, native widgets seems to me to be 
a prerequisite for a working software development application. Being required, 
for example, to program a button from scratch takes one back to the early days 
of personal computing.

What is preventing the various SmallTalks from offering a modern GUI painter? 

My Best Wishes for Pharo and SmallTalk :
Hubert Wagner, France 

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