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Wow. The density of ideas I've never heard of before on that page is high.

Pharo and Smalltalk in general always remind me of that famous William Gibson quote: "The future is already here—It’s just not very evenly distributed".

This page is great!

If any Pharo folks are reading this, here's a small website feature request: Let me click on the images of this page to get full-resolution, un-cropped versions.

That is a good introduction to what makes pharo appealing.

It sounds a lot like Smalltalk though. Do you know of a similar page that highlights the differences between pharo and Smalltalk?

Pharo follows from Smalltalk, particularly through Squeak. It started off as a fork of Squeak and retains Smalltalk's syntax, but has gone its own way in terms of the capabilities it provides and rewriting portions.