On 28/04/2018, 13:06, "Ben Coman" btc@openinworld.com wrote:
Now that Pharo is bootstrapped, couldn't the energy of Cuis to have a small, clean system be poured into that effort? Could Squeak be a layer on top with all the cool stuff reimplemented. Well, it's a dream, but maybe fragmentation is just the way of the world/human beings
If Squeak saw some value in having a similar bootstrap, then leveraging Pharo's efforts would make sense and might result in some *known* common minimal stage (e.g. pre-GUI) between distributions. Maintenance effort could then at least be shared at that level.
Such a minimal common bootstrap would probably suit being hosted under the OpenSmalltalk banner.
This is subject which deserve a long discussion. No idea about which Pharo bootstrap is this, if was a Gullermo Polito on Candle or Pavel Krivanek on Kernel or some new. I don't follow Pharo close enough. But myself studying WebAssembly for one year now and building my own tools for dissecting .wasm and "compiling" .wast .wat S- expressions to binary. Just now WebAssembly lacks GC, but at 2019 end maybe not. Using it we have speed and portability and is a great opportunity for build a system from ground , taking the Squeak legacy to XXI century and beyond.
Edgar @morplenauta