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Pharo 2.0 Released

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Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

#12

Is Seaside still being developed? Seems that it died out with DabbleDB being bought up and the take over of the client side js frameworks.

Of course, and there is integration with jQueryMobile even. http://jquerymobile.seasidehosting.st

Ah, I see. I stop by seaside.st every once and a while, and it doesn't seem to have been updated with any new news for a long time. It would be cool to mention some of these developments on its front page.

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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It is awesome to see that Smalltalk, after all this time, is being driven forward like that ! Just be careful: once you get deep enough into the beauty of Smalltalk, you will be changed forever and it will be hard to go back.

I used Smalltalk Visual Works back in 1996 in an university project and it was quite good experience.

The current development environments still have some catch up to do with the Smalltalk and Lisp machine offerings.

The only environment I know tried to replicate a similar experience is the family of Oberon operating systems, because Wirth wanted to explorer a similar experience, but using a strong typed language.

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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Strange that the Pharo home page doesn't explain what Pharo does. I'm not familiar with Pharo and after scrutinizing the Pharo home page I'm still don't have a clue what it does.

I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page.

Am I missing something? If I'm not already familiar with Pharo, am I simply not part of the intended audience?

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

#17

Strange that the Pharo home page doesn't explain what Pharo does. I'm not familiar with Pharo and after scrutinizing the Pharo home page I'm still don't have a clue what it does. I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page. Am I missing something? If I'm not already familiar with Pharo, am I simply not part of the intended audience?

agree, really hard to find out what it is, the only work that I catch and gave me a hint is 'virtual machines', but still pretty vague

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

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post #7

Is Seaside still being developed? Seems that it died out with DabbleDB being bought up and the take over of the client side js frameworks.

Yes seaside is still in active development and there is progress on getting a nice configuration working on Pharo 2.0. Until then you can use our manual build from https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/Seaside-2.0/ to test it.

It isn't fully functional, is it? The image from the CI opens with an STDOUT error.

What's missing to have a "nice" (working?) configuration for Pharo 2.0?

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

#19

Strange that the Pharo home page doesn't explain what Pharo does. I'm not familiar with Pharo and after scrutinizing the Pharo home page I'm still don't have a clue what it does. I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page. Am I missing something? If I'm not already familiar with Pharo, am I simply not part of the intended audience?

Not trying to be a dick or anything, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo

Re: Pharo 2.0 Released

#20

Strange that the Pharo home page doesn't explain what Pharo does. I'm not familiar with Pharo and after scrutinizing the Pharo home page I'm still don't have a clue what it does. I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page. Am I missing something? If I'm not already familiar with Pharo, am I simply not part of the intended audience?

There's a link on the home page - "About" which goes into a bit more depth.
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