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Re:Pharo 8.0 by rbanffy on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:59AM (#22107450)
> Yeah, as if people are going to install a whole virtual machine to run a chat application...

You can install an application that launches the VM with the desired image and the user will never know the app is running inside a Smalltalk VM.

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Re:Pharo 8.0 by masukomi on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:15PM (#22120277)
i think they were being sarcastic, because slack is JavaScript in a VM (Electron) to run a chat application.
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