[squeak-dev] SqueakNim - an FFI glue code tool

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Aug 18 17:00:26 UTC 2015


+1 !!!!

Dave

> What about Magma 1.5?  I think it is very relevant to Squeak.  News it
> too?
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Quick question.  I would normally take a message like this and announce
>> it on news.squeak.org and other places.  Since this release comes from
>> 3D ICC I wanted to see first if anyone sees a conflict between my role
>> as news team guy and my real job.  Would anyone object to my adding this
>> announcement to news.squeak.org?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Ron Teitelbaum
>> Head Of Engineering
>> 3D Immersive Collaboration Consulting
>> ron at 3Dicc.com
>> Follow Me On Twitter: @RonTeitelbaum
>> www.3Dicc.com
>> https://www.google.com/+3Dicc
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
>>> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Göran Krampe
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 4:36 AM
>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; Pharo Development
>>> Subject: [squeak-dev] SqueakNim - an FFI glue code tool
>>>
>>> Hi fellow Smalltalkers!
>>>
>>> At 3DICC we are using Nim (http://nim-lang.org) to write our
>>> performance
>>> critical code that typically otherwise would have been written in
>>> C/C++.
>>> But now we have Nim :)
>>>
>>> Nim can generate dlls/so libraries following C conventions so they can
>>> easily
>>> be called via FFI.
>>>
>>> Andreas Rumpf (author of Nim who works with us) wrote a small utility
>>> called SqueakNim - its a set of Nim macros that generates the .st
>>> primitive
>>> calls based on the Nim code, so it takes out some grunt work and
>>> matches
>>> up types as far as it can. Simple, but very nice.
>>>
>>> The docs etc are a bit unpolished, but the trivial example in "tests"
>>> has comments in it and it works in Squeak 5, Pharo 3, Pharo 4 and I
>>> guess in
>>> most versions of Squeak/Pharo.
>>>
>>> Why would you be interested?
>>>
>>> - Nim is great fun! C/C++ is torture. Same performance, nuff said.
>>> - Nim has a tool called c2nim that wraps C *and* C++ libraries.
>>>
>>> That last part is a killer. We use c2nim to wrap Urho3D - a huge C++
>>> game
>>> engine, works great, and that wrapper is also open source btw,
>>> Urhonimo.
>>>
>>> How do I use it? See README at:
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.3dicc.com/3dicc/squeaknim
>>>
>>> For some more information my article (predating this tool) might have
>>> some
>>> details:
>>>
>>> http://goran.krampe.se/2014/11/03/squeak-to-nim
>>>
>>> ...and if you want to ask questions, hop onto freenode on either
>>> #squeak,
>>> #pharo or #nim. Me and Andreas are around.
>>>
>>> regards, Göran
>>
>>
>>
>




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