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Re:Pharo 2.0 Released by igouy on Monday March 18, 2013 @11:57AM (#5394941)
>> VisualWorks ... but it's not even free-as-in-beer for hobby projects anymore. <<

Nonsense.

"3. License Fees. This license is granted to you for your personal use only. Therefore, no license fees are involved, unless you breach the terms and conditions of this Agreement."

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/developer-community/tryi...

>> Dolphin ... I'm not entirely sure I'd feel comfortable spending money on it. <<

So don't -- "Dolphin Community Edition is our Smalltalk development environment that is FREE for personal/educational use."

http://www.object-arts.com/products/dce.html

Re:Pharo 2.0 Released by emaringolo on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @10:30AM (#5401068)
Dolphin is stagnated since several years. It's a beatiful piece of Software, and the best Smalltalk Dialect in terms of native Windows integration. So good integration that its low level developer (Blair McGlashan) is working at Microsoft since several years ago.