Pharo's goal is to be...

a progressive, open-source Smalltalk platform for professional use

a flexible environment to support the research of new language concepts

Towards version 1.0...

This is our current focus. We have produced over 260 updates and have closed over 439 issues so far (as of March 2009).

great developer tools

polished user interface

clean and lean code

works out-of-the-box on all major platforms

maintained stable version