It's "mikel evins".

I can't blame you for parsing it the other way; it's a more likely spelling. You can blame my eccentric father for the odd spelling of my first name, but he inherited the surname fair and square.

It's pronounced exactly the same way as "Michael Evans."

I'm always grateful when the map-territory distinction comes along and slaps me in the face. It's a signal that I should re-calibrate.

It's been a while, thanks for making it happen!

I actually take that as a positive item. He's able to effectively write code using just the terminal and vim. It doesn't get simpler than that. I really hate having to use something like Visual Studio or even VSCode. They're bloated and use a ton of resources. Playing around in Pharo is fun for a bit, but same problem.

I 100% agree that it seems like you can't unwind the stack the same way you can in Common Lisp or Smalltalk though.

Pharo is moving down strange pathways and some questionable recent implementation choices made me lose my faith (for now). Squeak has always been and remains my Smalltalk of choice, and if you can look past some -probable- superficial ugliness (e.g. Morphic) it remains relevant and extremely iconoclastic.

It seems like Pharo has all the action going on. Is Squeak still maintained.