7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a quick, compelling look at what Smalltalk tooling feels like, especially for Ruby programmers.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Avdi Grimm

Topic

smalltalk development environment

Format

demo

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• As a rails developer - my introduction to Pharo started with this video: [VIDEO] If you're not a ruby/rails developer you can still see how awesome it is, but for rubyists specifically it can really be quite mind blowing.

• As a Ruby developer this video about Pharo smalltalk made me a smalltalk believer — not surprising because Ruby was heavily inspired by smalltalk. [VIDEO]

• There's this recent video showing a little of what the Pharo Smalltalk environment is like: [VIDEO] The video was made by a Ruby programmer, rather than an experience Smalltalker, so it's more a newbie showing you cool things he's discovered, rather than an expert showing …