john1203

Smalltalk does not need new system browsers; rather, it needs to be updated with the tools and developments being made in the world today.

It is sad to see how many people have been developing with Smalltalk for so many years and still cannot escape the bubble of always revisiting the same issues.

Thanks, it's still a lot like babysitting, isn't it?

The worst thing about titles is the arrogance of people who need to hide behind them so that no one can argue with them.

I strongly recommend that you stop looking for financing on a continent known for its risk aversion and stingy investors. Go where the money is.

Believe me, I've wasted years filling out forms and proposals for investors who only want a sure profit. There's nothing you can do when the fear is on the other side.

But to which niches does it apply? Could it answer questions about the problems faced by specialists doing functional genomics or doctors treating patients with non-melanoma skin cancer?

>Pharo is specifically designed for commercial and industrial applications and not as a research environment. Partnering with private capital has been one source of funding for the project.

Does Pharo have a user base comparable to other programming environments?

If Pharo were really used in large-scale commercial and industrial applications, it would be as popular as Python, Java or C++. And it is far from it.

I repeat, "Pharo is very, very fast, you can build a GUI application..." is not something that is sells today, and if it were so competitively, companies would use Pharo instead of Flutter, Swift, etc. and on a large scale.

It seems too research-oriented programming IDE+language, where there is not a big market compared to other areas.

Who does Pharo want to compete with? Maybe developers think they shouldn't compete with other platforms? With the amount of real Pharo apps right now even on GitHub, it would be extremely difficult to "sell" Pharo to any decision maker.