Myroslava is doing some exciting work on code completion in Pharo:
https://medium.com/@myroslavarm/my-internship-at-inria-one-month-in-e43971d95fba
However, this paragraph particularly jumped out at me. This is classic Smalltalk: building a little helper GUI specific to your task!
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"Example Driven Development" using Glamorous and Pharo Smalltalk: https://medium.com/feenk/an-example-of-example-driven-development-4dea0d995920
Tests returning values and composing is a really interesting model. It establishes structure and shows which test failure is the most 'fundamental'.
Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently:
* IntelliJ (for Java)
* Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp)
* Pharo (for Smalltalk)
I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.
Today I learnt that the Glamorous Toolkit has its own VM, implemented in Rust, which wraps the Pharo smalltalk environment!
