[squeak-dev] [ANN] TruffleSqueak 20.1.0 released

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Sun Jun 21 05:35:04 UTC 2020


On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 12:31, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 21:37, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to officially announce the first stable release of
>> TruffleSqueak [1], a Squeak/Smalltalk VM and Polyglot Programming
>> Environment for the GraalVM [2]. As some of you know, we at HPI [3]
>> have been working on this for quite a while and open-sourced it a few
>> weeks after our presentation at ESUG'19 [4].
>>
>> The virtual machine is implemented in Truffle [5], GraalVM's
>> Java-based language implementation framework. The image has direct
>> access to GraalVM's language interoperability protocol [6] and based
>> on this, we have adapted the workspace and inspection tools so that
>> they work consistently for objects from Javascript, Python, R, Ruby,
>> and all other languages supported by GraalVM. In addition, the image
>> comes with our polyglot notebook system [7] and a polyglot code editor
>> [8]. You may also find our paper on TruffleSqueak (formerly
>> GraalSqueak) [9] and our blog post on "Smalltalk with the GraalVM"
>> [10] an interesting read. Nonetheless, please keep in mind that
>> TruffleSqueak is a research project, so there will be bugs (please
>> report them at [11]) and things left to do (feedback is welcome!).
>>
>> You can follow TruffleSqueak on Twitter [12] for more updates. On June
>> 24, I'm also going to talk about TruffleSqueak in the UK Smalltalk
>> User Group meeting [13], and you are invited to join us.
>>
>> Lastly, I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to
>> TruffleSqueak and I'm excited to see what you’re going to do with it.
>>
>> Fabio
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak
>> [2] https://www.graalvm.org
>> [3] https://hpi.de/swa
>> [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAk3Ec8hmzk
>> [5] https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle
>> [6]
>> https://www.graalvm.org/truffle/javadoc/com/oracle/truffle/api/interop/InteropLibrary.html
>> [7] https://doi.org/10.1145/3328433.3328434
>> [8]
>> https://medium.com/graalvm/hpi-polyglot-programming-seminar-3fd06ffa59d2
>> [9] https://doi.org/10.1145/3357390.3361024
>> [10] https://www.javaadvent.com/2019/12/smalltalk-with-the-graalvm.html
>> [11] https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/issues
>> [12] https://twitter.com/TruffleSqueak/
>> [13] https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrybcjbgc/
>>
>>
> This is super cool Fabio.  Ever since a long time ago I noticed...
>       Behaviour >> compilerClass
> I always thought Squeak/Pharo might make a good polygot platform.
>
> I notice in the video [4] that you just run things from the Workspace
> (which itself is great)
> but you don't make use of the Squeak's code browser or the debugger.  What
> are the constraints there?
>

Also, what would need to be done to make FFI calls using GraalSqueak?


> cheers -ben
>
>
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