MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters point Rubyists and the Smalltalk-curious to it as an approachable introduction that shows the Smalltalk system browser and Pharo environment in action.

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

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Confreaks

Topic

smalltalk

Format

talk

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2024

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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• I came across a video showing Pharo and Smalltalk that blew me away[0] and I completely agree with you. In some fields, we are heading back in this direction with literate programming (notebooks) and new languages like Dark that attempt to rethink some of our …

• > The colorful Playskool environment That was likely Squeak, not Pharo. Pharo has muted a lot of the UI colours to be more appropriate for a business environment. > How anyone could possibly be productive in such an environment. What is it that's so attractive …

• Because it managed to produce frictionless adoption in academia. All the rest is downstream of that. MVPs in entrepreneurial initiatives are done with that. RESTful APIs are based on the prototypes that come from academia. Good libraries for data processing of lots of data required …