[squeak-dev] [ANN] TruffleSqueak 20.1.0 released

Fabio Niephaus lists at fniephaus.com
Sun Jun 21 17:40:37 UTC 2020


On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 4:53 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Thanks, Dave! And I agree, being able to send messages to objects from
other languages is very different from talking to some other language
through FFI or IPC. Squeak's tools are a great fit I think, too.

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>
> 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?

Sure, but I must admit that I haven't contributed a new page to the
wiki yet. Where would be a good place to put this?

Fabio

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> Dave
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