Section: Software

Pharo

Participants : Marcus Denker [correspondant] , Damien Cassou, Stéphane Ducasse, Esteban Lorenzano, Mariano Martinez-Peck, Damien Pollet, Igor Stasenko, Veronica Uquillas-Gomez.

Web: http://www.pharo-project.org/

The platform. Pharo is a new open-source Smalltalk-inspired language and environment. It provides a platform for innovative development both in industry and research. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent developer tools, and maintained releases, Pharo's goal is to be a platform to build and deploy mission critical Smalltalk applications.

The first stable version, Pharo 1.0, was released in 2010. The development of Pharo accelerated in 2011 and 2012: Versions 1.2 to 1.4 have been released (with more than 2400 closed issues), and the development branch (2.0) has seen already over 398 incremental releases as of mid November 2012. In 2012, RMoD organized the first Pharo Conference during two days in May with 60 participants.

Additionally, in November 2012 RMoD launched the Pharo Consortium (http://www.pharo-project.org/community/consortium ) and the Pharo Association (http://association.pharo.org/ ). 25 companies already shown interest in supporting the consortium.

RMoD is the main maintainer and coordinator of Pharo.

Here is the self-assessment of the team effort following the grid given at http://www.inria.fr/institut/organisation/instances/commission-d-evaluation .

• (A5) Audience: 5 – Used in many universities for teaching, more than 25 companies.

• (SO3) Software originality : 3 – Pharo offers a classical basis for some aspects (UI). It includes new frameworks and concepts compared to other Smalltalk implementations.

• (SM4) Software Maturity: 4 – Bug tracker, continuous integration, large test suites are on place.

• (EM4) Evolution and Maintenance: 4 – Active user group, consortium and association had just been set up.

• (SDL4) Software Distribution and Licensing: 4 – Pharo is licensed under MIT.

• (OC5) Own Contribution: (Design/Architecture) DA-5, (Coding/Debugging) CD-5, (Maintenance/Support) MS-5, (Team/Project Management) TPM-5