What do people use Pharo for? Is anyone here using it for a product?
Nothing fancy, just a web server getting file and saving them. Like a KV-storage.
I have deployed it to dogital ocean on 2017. I have not TOUCHED it since then. Still running good. And I can access the Pharo GUI via the web VNC just from my browser with full access to the IDE and dev env.
The cons: I forgot how to run that docker image. If it fails I am in troubles reminding myself how to run it one more time. 6 years have passed...
That's a thing I read about elsewhere, and it sounds like it has or had an integrated VNC Server - is that true (meaning run it heqdless from cli via ssh and connect to it through that), or do you need an X and leave Pharo "opened"? Any pointers appreciated ;-)
of course, learning how to use it properly might take a little longer :-)
You need to know more method signatures to write any program in it. For example things like: someCollection do: [ :someArgument | "some code" ]. Stuff like that. It's still a lot less than most languages though.
I found that this really helps [1] and I find it more representative of how difficult the language actually is. The postcard example is a bit contrived.
[1] https://gist.github.com/jdevoo/8e8866cd6087e05790841d0f20b2e...
> From 2008 to 2015 ATMs deployed in Moscow streets were developed and run using Pharo. People use them to pay for services with cash and cards (phone, internet, taxes, parking, etc)."Pharo was a really enabling technology. We developed user interfaces using advanced flow control based on continuations and mixed prototype with class-based programming. We supported various kind of equipment and a...
> 2 March 2017
https://pharo.org/success/ATMsInMoscowStreets.html
That's a surprising success story!