Glamorous Toolkit
Shares rank 4 of 7 programming environments by recommenders
People recommend it as a live, inspectable environment for exploring data and code, built on Pharo. The recurring caveat is that it becomes slow when it repeatedly re-interprets and re-renders data structures.
People recommend it as a live, inspectable environment for exploring data and code, built on Pharo. The recurring caveat is that it becomes slow when it repeatedly re-interprets and re-renders data structures.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Praised for inspiring design ideas
“Girba's really amazing idea of "language = ui = software = data"”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Pharo 14” “Woah, that Glamorous Toolkit environment looks amazing.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer” Seen as the leading option
“Glamorous Toolkit is the main one I have found, yah.”
Comment from 24 Jun 2026 in “Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time” “Glamorous Toolkit pretty much has this and more.”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow with repeated data re-rendering
“GT got really slow with all the data structure re-interpreting and rerendering”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Pharo 14”
Other programming environments people recommend
The four most recommended other programming environments, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HyperCard | 62 | 5 | 93% | 11 | — | Approved |
| QBasic | 27 | 3 | 90% | 11 | — | Approved |
| QuickBASIC | 8 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | — |
| Glamorous ToolkitThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 5 | — | — |
| Folk Computer | 6 | 2 | 75% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“GT got really slow with all the data structure re-interpreting and rerendering”
“Girba's really amazing idea of "language = ui = software = data"”
“It was a pretty good experience and the built-in data exploration was top notch.”
“my understanding is that their rust based GUI works fine with high DPI”
“Glamorous Toolkit is the main one I have found, yah.”
“Woah, that Glamorous Toolkit environment looks amazing.”
“both Glamorous Toolkit and plain Pharo have tooling that allows integration of both local and remote LLM services”
“Glamorous Toolkit pretty much has this and more.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.