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IIRC theming is not yet officially supported but if you search on Discord some users have had reasonable success.

Yes. That said, it took me a while using it to figure out that one non-obvious key feature here is that “easy” means that they’ve made it cheap enough where one automatically chang…

Yikes, that sounds frustrating. Did you download one of the binaries from https://gtoolkit.com/download/ ? Also, what OS are you on? For me, the Mac (both ARM and Intel) binaries h…

Ugh, do I fall into that rabbit hole often! The thing with GT, though, is that the cost of creating visualizations is so low - a few seconds - that it’s rarely a distraction

Wow, I love the idea of using GT for reverse engineering. That would’ve been life-changing for my last experience, where I worked mostly in a hex editor. The context switching and …

The writer couldn’t do something in a new system after 10 minutes of searching, so sure it must be “some kind of weird cult” ;-) Seriously though, I hear them about the lack of UI …

> Dismissing weak arguments is easy. Try imagining what a strong argument for the author's point would look like, and then respond to that. This is great advice for going beyond th…

I don't exactly have a playbook. I generally just fix as I go. I try to install the project, fix any errors, run the test, fix the errors, etc. I can say that some version jumps ha…

One click on the "Documentation" tab provides links to several screencasts/tutorials. Are you looking for something specific? "Hello world" doesn't cleanly map to an environment as…

Cool perspective! FYI there are also REST add-ons now (as well as other more minimal frameworks) for when REST is desired.

Due to Pharo/Smalltalk being not just a language, but a language/libraries/IDE, I think it's important to distinguish between API instability (which IHMO is better called evolution…

> Is [immersion] being only in the programming environment and not leaving? The dream is never leaving, as expressed by the Dynabook concept. However, in the full expression of tha…

> SmallTalk was designed to BE the computer Yes! This is why comparing Smalltalk to programming languages misses the whole point. I just wrote a blog post about this: "Programmers:…

Part of the confusion stems from the term "Smalltalk" being overloaded. When most people hear the word, they think "Smalltalk-80" - the version released over 30 years ago. What the…

I forwarded you question to the dev list

A hammer is just a long handle with a piece of metal on the end, but if you're not building something valuable with it, who cares?

2364 issues closed by > 80 contributors in ~ 1 year - WOW! And the website looks great :)

You are asking to force the question into an artificially created box that doesn't help us get to the truth. The Smalltalk experience is naturally - and more fairly - compared to R…

FileSystem, Zinc, or Zodiac alone would have been enough to celebrate! It's amazing what's been accomplished in a short time...

Smalltalk is great (mostly for historic reasons these days) In my experience coming to Pharo Smalltalk after a 15 year journey through C, C++, VB, PHP, ObjC, and Ruby (my second fa…

Tools amplify an individual's power. No one needs anything except air, gravity... Shunning powerful tools is hacker-mental-masturbation i.e. "I'm so smart I can write everything in…