The home page of any project should tell us straight up what it is.
The homepage does. This link is to the release announcement.
Pharo 2.0 Released
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#22The home page of any project should tell us straight up what it is.
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#23Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client. Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers for almost a decade - Long may it continue!
Could someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.
Re: Pharo 2.0 Released
#24Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client. Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers for almost a decade - Long may it continue!
Could someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.
it's one of the (maybe "the") most popular open source smalltalk environments.
It matters in the same way a new ruby/python/clojure release matters, though it's not as popular.
Re: Pharo 2.0 Released
#25Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client. Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers for almost a decade - Long may it continue!
Could someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.
It is the most recent release of a the Smalltalk based programming environment, Pharo.
If you never heard of Smalltalk, you can google it. But as a summary I can tell you it is the father of Object-Oriented Programming, BitBlt, the Model-View-Controller pattern, the Unit Testing practice (SUnit), the Refactoring engine, among other things people take for granted today.
Re: Pharo 2.0 Released
#26The home page of any project should tell us straight up what it is.
The homepage does. This link is to the release announcement.
They include an alt text on the logo image. Why not put that text into the image itself?
I see a description is in the title of the page, but that gets cut off in my browser.
"I do enjoy Pharo" is also not a very helpful quote, especially if I don't know who Kent Beck is.
Re: Pharo 2.0 Released
#27Did the new compiler make it into this release? Does anyone know?
Nope, even though it is ready for 2.0 it was not included in the release. If you are more interested you can have a look at the prepared jenkins images https://ci.inria.fr/rmod/job/Opal/ .
Re: Pharo 2.0 Released
#28Strange 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?
On the top of the website you can see: "Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment".
Basically it is a programming language + ide + image based virtual machine.
Re: Pharo 2.0 Released
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The homepage does. This link is to the release announcement.
They include an alt text on the logo image. Why not put that text into the image itself? I see a description is in the title of the page, but that gets cut off in my browser. "I do enjoy Pharo" is also not a very helpful quote, especially if I don't know who Kent Beck is.
What you don't know Kent Beck!! :D and yes even to me that quote is rather meaningless :P. I'll try to get the at least the ALT text updated.
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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.
True, the Seaside home page looks outdated. But people is still using it, and it is under active development.