Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

melvinroest 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've been at ESUG a few years ago. I can definitely recommend it if you want access to all kinds of Smalltalk and Pharo experts, and listen to all kinds of topics that contain a high amount of expertise.

I remember that I wanted a visual step by step debugger for a visualization library [1]. I was lucky enough to find the library maintainer himself. He liked the idea, and within just 30 to 60 minutes we programmed a prototype in (this was around ChatGPT 3.5, so pure hand coding).

[1] https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Roassal

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diegof79 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Happy to see something related to ESUG so up in HN.

Smalltalk still has a small group of passionate people who love the language, the environment, and its concepts.

For some reason, Buenos Aires has a “large” group of Smalltalkers (large relative to the total, which is small in absolute terms). This group usually organizes the ESUG event in Argentina with very few sponsors.

	▲	spooneybarger 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's taught in at least one of the universities there.
	▲	masijo 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I attend the National University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires, where my first OOP course was taught in Smalltalk, specifically CUIS [1]. It was a lot of fun and a very nice introduction to object-oriented thinking. As a curiosity, there are two "competing" sections for this subject: one that uses CUIS and the other one uses Wollok[2] (an in-house language). It's funny to discuss which one is better with classmates. [1]: https://cuis.st/ [2]: https://www.wollok.org/

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ape4 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Its odd that some words have a squiggly red underline in that image.

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rmonvfer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

not even a screenshot?

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anthk an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is like Pharo but for Gnome. So, a good interface for an smalltalk, suferior to GNU Smalltalk. Altough GST can be used scripted, for sure.

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mring33621 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

no pictures of the IDE?

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himinlomax 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just had a realization: I've been hearing and reading about Smalltalk and how great (though slow) it was for the past 30 years … but I've never once seen an application, let alone a killer one.

Well, except for development environments.

Anyone know one that's worth looking at?

	▲	xhevahir 20 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Cognitone Synfire is made with Smalltalk, I think: https://www.cognitone.com/products/mps/intro/page.stml . But it's not at all easy to install and use.
	▲	xkriva11 29 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		One example of a very widely used desktop application written in Smalltalk was the first version of Scratch.
	▲	ssdspoimdsjvv an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Mostly boring proprietary business applications.
	▲	srott 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		dabbledb was fine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY

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bemtevi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Now it seems there are two editors named Pulsar. This, and the successor to Atom.