while i have learned smalltalk already a few years ago, it was only a short time ago that i found a smalltalk application that is so useful that it's worth it to keep a pharo smalltalk environment running at all times.

as a result i became easy to use that to build a small gui app to help me solve some issues.

the key takeaway is this: i have wanted to learn more about smalltalk ever since i started learning it, and i experimented with a few apps. but the effort of having to start a smalltalk environment every time i had a few minutes to dabble around just seemed like not worth the trouble. (it was like an 'out of sight, out of mind' thing, and it always seemed a bit to much to get used to how smalltalk works just for experimenting.)

but now that the environment is always running, and needs to run for that one vital application i am using, for which it is worth it to keep the smalltalk image uptodate and current, that makes it easy to spend free minutes to dabble around and try things.