Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

melvinroest

I've been at ESUG a few years ago. I can definitely recommend it if you want access to all kinds of Smalltalk and Pharo experts, and listen to all kinds of topics that contain a high amount of expertise. I remember that I wanted a visual step by step debugger for a visualization library [1]. I was lucky enough to find the library maintainer himself. He liked the idea, and within just 30 to 60 minutes we programmed a prototype in (this was around ChatGPT 3.5, so pure hand coding). [1] https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Roassal

diegof79

Happy to see something related to ESUG so up in HN. Smalltalk still has a small group of passionate people who love the language, the environment, and its concepts. For some reason, Buenos Aires has a “large” group of Smalltalkers (large relative to the total, which is small in absolute terms). This group usually organizes the ESUG event in Argentina with very few sponsors.

bemtevi

Now it seems there are two editors named Pulsar. This, and the successor to Atom.

ape4

Its odd that some words have a squiggly red underline in that image.

himinlomax

I just had a realization: I've been hearing and reading about Smalltalk and how great (though slow) it was for the past 30 years … but I've never once seen an application, let alone a killer one. Well, except for development environments. Anyone know one that's worth looking at?

mring33621

no pictures of the IDE?

anthk

This is like Pharo but for Gnome. So, a good interface for an smalltalk, suferior to GNU Smalltalk. Altough GST can be used scripted, for sure.

rmonvfer

not even a screenshot?

fithisux

It is beautiful having all these people pushing the SoA forward.