[ben-coman]

Pharo is making some moves in this direction with: * the CI first bootstrapping a non-GUI image as a separate artifact prior to loading the GUI and IDE into the release product. * good progress on stripping graphical elements out of the VM so it could be embedded in other systems (e.g. as a game scripting engine). * using git to manage sources. * some community `vi` keyboard bindings (I haven't tried) But still there is not yet an easy access to use separate tools. The benefit of using Pharo IDE is being able to mold your tools... http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/the-moldable-gtinspect...