Hi, Thanks everyone for making this happen. It's great to hear this kind of reports from real life projects.
I am sure that Pharo 4 will be even better! Cheers, Doru On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Gastón Dall' Oglio < gaston.dallog...@gmail.com> wrote: > No more to say, a big big THANK YOU for make and continuously improve > Pharo and the related infrastructure tools. This is a really big job. > I'm always in the path of to show Pharo to my friends and try to use it in > my work, and really that's every time more and more easy :) > > Best regard. > > 2014-10-23 4:29 GMT-03:00 kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: > > Fortunately my experience with people I introduced in pharo has been a lot >> more positive than your, they were facinated by what Pharo offers and find >> it very useful, productive and fun environment. Actually one person hated >> it but he was a big troll so I dont count him in. >> >> But none of the people I introduced to Pharo ended keep using it, mainly >> because they were too tied into other platforms and languages and cant >> blame them. It took me 1 year to switch from python and I had to redefine >> the way I was coding and thinking about code. >> >> Even though Stef keeps stressing that Pharo does not have the resources >> of big companies and of course he is correct on other hand we see a clear >> and steady improvement, I think Pharo is on the right path and will correct >> many of the mistakes of Smalltalk and eventually bring much more people in. >> The future is certainly exciting and I am glad I have joined this ride :) >> >> Phareos certainly makes my dreams about coding a reality. Thanks to all >> pharoers for giving us such amazing functionality and working hard and >> thinking outside the box. >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> >> wrote: >> >>> Mariano, >>> >>> It is good to hear from you, and it is even better to hear such nice >>> words. Thanks you ! >>> >>> I think that in general, in our day to day struggles, people >>> underestimate just how good Pharo is and how useful it is to do real work >>> in the real world, in other words, to be successful. >>> >>> Do we already have your story as a 'success story' for the website ? >>> >>> Sven >>> >>> > On 23 Oct 2014, at 03:15, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi guys, >>> > >>> > I just wanted to share my happiness with you. I joined a team 2 years >>> ago almost to develop a Seaside 3.0 app, using and old Magritte version, >>> and Pharo 1.4. As soon as I started, I created a ConfigurationOfMyApp, and >>> migrated to Pharo 2.0. >>> > >>> > That worked fine for almost 2 years. Since several weeks/months, I >>> wanted to update to new Seaside versions and Pharo. Of course, you never >>> have time, there are always other problems to fix first, etc...But 10 days >>> ago, I stopped everything, and I migrated to Seaside 3.1.3, latest >>> Magritte, latest Bootstrap (very very cool project too...we are using it >>> everywhere), latest everything...and... of course...Pharo 3.0!!! >>> Also..the "port" was almost nothing...everything almost worked out of the >>> box. Thanks to contributors maintaining great softwares like Metacello and >>> all existing configurations. >>> > >>> > Btw...I am also deploying my app in GemStone since almost an year, >>> and this also is being good. Gemstone people also have a great support via >>> mailing list which I very much appreciate. >>> > >>> > I played with Pharo 3.0 when it was released and some time also before >>> that. But not that much. Now..I am using the very same image since at least >>> 10 days. Working full time. All my projects are working great. I cannot >>> believe so good it feels developing in Pharo 3.0. I am using the great Dark >>> Theme from Esteban. Everything is super fast, super nice, super stable. And >>> with my 2.0 images..they always grew too much (up to 500MB), that >>> everything started to be very very slow. I needed to start again with a >>> fresh image, etc. This 3.0 image has almost the same size as I started and >>> continues to be super fast. >>> > >>> > So...I cannot repeat myself how good Pharo 3.0 feels. I should have >>> migrated long ago. Thanks all the contributors and developers for such a >>> great and professional product. >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Mariano >>> > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com >>> >>> >>> >> > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
