A Journey in Pharo: A Bright Future

The Most Important Effort is Behind

• You learned most of Pharo aspects
  • the rest, including package dependency management and continuous integration, is in www.pharo.org
• You learned the core of Pharo
  • now you can learn any Pharo library

Pharo is not Read-Only

Pharo is not a black-box, it is an aquarium with living objects! You can swim in it and be really productive.

Business

Pharo is a community of people building businesses

• if you need help just ask

Pharo is Evolving

• Pharo is at the beginning of its life
• Infrastructure is continously improving
  • compiler, tools, core libraries, ...
• Community is constantly growing

Mid-Term Vision

• Bootstrapped core to support coffee machine to cloud apps
• Better integration with OSes and C
• Pharo as a DLL
• Better package systems
• A module system
• Scripting syntax
• Better integration with versioning systems
• Modular and validated distributions

Pharo and its Projects

• Pharo is built by up to 70 international contributors
• The community is working on many different projects
• You can join, help

Hope You Liked the Journey in Pharo

Hope You Liked the Journey in Pharo

Pharo is

• Pure & elegant
• Fun, simple
• Highly productive
• Excellent for teaching
• Empowering
• Fully accessible