I know at least 5 Pharo users, and one of them wrote a book about it (for the other 4 :P).
They were part of a research group at university and made us students use it. I get why it's nice and all, but honestly it feels a bit like Crossfit, or Vim. There are a small handful of excited users who try to convice everyone else how amazing it is. (Sorry, Oscar et al.)
tbh im not sure what the value of this comment is here; also not a fan of talking down on other people's work (irrespective of how much you might dislike them). the most charitable explanation is that this was sarcasm?
dunno why you're getting downvoted. also that original comment suffers from the fallacy of popularity (which is 50/50. Something popular is so either because it's good, or because of chance).
The comment mocking Pharo/Smalltalk could have been written by someone who probably writes in one of the Blub languages that are extremely popular. LOL.
It's getting harder to pick between Pharo vs Eiffel for a new project :)
What is compelling about Eiffel? Serious question.
I think that the interesting thing about Eiffel is that it supports design by contract, an idea that was created and implemented first in Eiffel.
I know at least 5 Pharo users, and one of them wrote a book about it (for the other 4 :P). They were part of a research group at university and made us students use it. I get why it's nice and all, but honestly it feels a bit like Crossfit, or Vim. There are a small handful of excited users who try to convice everyone else how amazing it is. (Sorry, Oscar et al.)
Learning vim motions is legitimately amazing, and well worth the effort, even if you never use vim itself.
that sounds like Lisp promotion. But in the case of Lisp, it's actually true.
Somebody has never used ENVY[0].
[0]: https://paulhammant.com/2017/09/01/smalltalk-envy/
tbh im not sure what the value of this comment is here; also not a fan of talking down on other people's work (irrespective of how much you might dislike them). the most charitable explanation is that this was sarcasm?
dunno why you're getting downvoted. also that original comment suffers from the fallacy of popularity (which is 50/50. Something popular is so either because it's good, or because of chance).
The comment mocking Pharo/Smalltalk could have been written by someone who probably writes in one of the Blub languages that are extremely popular. LOL.