"Developers use Byzantine languages like C++, Scala, Swift, and Rust. Or they use arcane, difficult-to-learn languages like Haskell, Perl, and JavaScript"<p>"Enter Pharo. It joins the ranks of Elixir, Go, Nim, and others for easy-to-use programming tools"<p>Does anyone else find the confidence with which these purely subjective statements are made as fact downright silly?
Posting a bit late to this thread, but anyway (this snakeoil salesman really ticks me off, so ...)<p>The writer in question is infamous for making ridiculously bombastic claims about smalltalk which only serve to put off potential new-entrants to the language/paradigm.<p>He's been told, more than once, on various smalltalk mailing lists to kindly knock it off. Unfortunately, he has designated himself as "Mr Smalltalk" (I kid you not, really), and really thinks he's doimg the world a favour.<p>Treat him as a WWE "manager" wannabe, and ignore him (we really ought not to be linking to his nonsense on hn).<p>And please don't let him put you off trying out Pharo, cuis or amber smalltalk.