Yes, very different is part of less pragmatic IMHO.
It is very oriented to develop tooling of tooling of tooling and we all work with files nowadays, not wirh images.
I want to like Pharo, but that creates other frictions with tools such as Git (I know you can use Git, I tried, it is just not obvious how the workflow works).
Also, it has a full set of APIs for GUIs that noone knows in contemporany programming.
It is a pitty bc I really think it could really excel at interactive and live programming. However, when I drop Python there even if supposedly inferior, I can have my editor and iterate fast.
I can invent even some kind of hot reloading that works well enough. And the result (the pragmatic result!) is that overall it ends up working better for me.
I really want to like Pharo. I find it super cool. But... every time I use it I end up getting stuck. C FFI, I am not sure how to do it (my fault probably!), workflow is unobvious even if more powerful.
So I end up wanting to do some interactive stuff but I always get stuck.
Also, the software deployment with Pharo is weird. It looks weird. It should look like a regular app when I launch something, not like a marsian environment.
