>Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps?
Not making a value judgement. I agree that it doesn't need any more reason to exist than for its own sake. But I'm just genuinely curious what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting.
> what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting.
Pretty much, the ultimate quick-and-dirty prototyping engine, especially for GUI projects. In the sense that you're prototyping largely from scratch, not cobbling myriads of huge libs. So, ball of mud. Not brick wall.
Funny thing. Back-in-the-day Smalltalks were attractive because the source code was included to be studied and re-used (When that wasn't true of many other development tools).
Not making a value judgement. I agree that it doesn't need any more reason to exist than for its own sake. But I'm just genuinely curious what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting.