Hi guys Let me restate clearly the goal of pharo: We want a small, clean kernel. Now it does not mean that we want a smalltalk like one of the 80 :) nor one that is only looking like Smalltalk from far :). We want an innovative Smalltalk. Right now we are re-aligning the current implementation (you know squashing wrong lines and adding abstractions). Of course there are work. We would love to have a UIBuilder (and this is not because of lack of vision) and a lot more. But we want new way to structure program (traits, modules,...), solutions to provide security concerns..... But this is something that needs time to build prototype, evaluate redo, turn them into more robust solutions. So dan if you want to take pharo and run it into JS please go. We are writing a new compiler which can be certainly tweaked to generate jsbytecode (if any). Now Dan may be you should have started to build a smalltalk on Javascript and people may have understood your intentions.
From far it looked like Morphic with a funny (not fun) syntax.
Stef PS: in 2001 we could only do anything beside Java, nowadays it seems that the dogma changed again and that we cannot do anything but Javascript. This is not what you said of course I read well english but this is a fun to see cycles.