Friday, May 27, 2016

Epicea in Pharo 6

Epicea is now integrated into Pharo 6.

Who uses Smalltalk

A new article from Richard Eng on who uses Smalltalk.

There are many people and projects all over the world who use Smalltalk. And yes it is true that mostly new projects start in more "fashioned" languages like Java. So this is more a question about how well known Smalltalk is and about popularity. There is also this common misbelief that new technologies must be better out of the box. I have some doubts in that - because today many software technologies or languages are very specific, written in a hurry or lack a solid and stable engineering foundation.

My answer to the question on who uses Smalltalk would be much easier: anyone who is interested in clean OO solutions and knowledgable enough to value increased productivity and long term maintainability.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Pharo Newsletter

There is a low traffic “Pharo Newsletter” Mailinglist. If you want to join read here.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Friday, May 20, 2016

OpenSmalltalk virtual machine repo

The virtual machine used for open source Smalltalks like Squeak and Pharo is now moved from Subversion to GitHub.

Read about the details.

TokyoDB

I did not know yet about this project from Esteban:

TokyoDB is a Pharo wrapper for Tokyo Cabinet.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Sunday, May 08, 2016