Congratulations! Great work. Best regards, Koen
> On 23 May 2025, at 08:56, Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-dev > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: > > We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 13! > > What is Pharo? > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > > > <Pharo13.png> > > Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no > interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a > full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the > way down. > Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your > development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, > you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! > Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike > anything you’ve seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the > execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! > Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 > contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people > constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. > Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT > <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> License and available on GitHub > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo> > … more on the Pharo Features page <http://www.pharo.org/features>. > In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of > improvement, clean-up and modularization. > Also, we included a number of usability and speed improvements. > A detailed list of changes and improvements is available in our Changelog > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/tree/master/weekly> > (weekly based) > > Some highlights of this amazing version: > > Highlights > > Tools > > Spec Tools remembering their size > Microdown enhancements > HDPI support > Zoomable UI > New list, tables and trees, allowing any presenter as their content > Better source code text navigation and edition > New Process Browser > New Transcript (introducing also the Object Transcript) > Organic window manager > System > > Better refactorings UX Cleaner leaner code logic > More robust and faster halt implementation > Debug points to enhance the debugging experience > Clean-ups > Virtual machine > > Async IO using epoll on unixes > Faster byte array / string comparisons > Improve Windows support for non ASCII filenames > FreeBSD support > Update SDL2 version in OSX (Intel & Apple) > Minimal MacOS version required raised to MacOS 11 and above > Development Effort > > This new version is the result of 698 Pull Requests integrated just in the > Pharo repository. > We have closed 865 issues and received contributions from more than 70 > different contributors. > We also have a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each > Pharo release: > > http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools > http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec > http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg > https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Roassal > http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown > http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments > http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > Contributors > > We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but > most importantly, because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our > great community (yourself). > A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo > 13.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion > threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community > channels. > Thank you all for your contributions. > > The Pharo Team > > Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features > > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download > > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation >
