On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 03:37:09PM +0200, Fabio Niephaus 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 really interesting work, and it is a lot of information to absorb.
I just watched the ESUG video, which is a good place to start. It is quite
a different perspective to think of "foreign" objects that can interact
directly without the need for layers of remote calls.

Thank you for collecting alll of these links all into an announcement here.
May I suggest that you paste it into a page on wiki.squeak.org as well?

Dave