Hello folks,
during my visit at ESUG i had a conversation with Stephane, about different things, one of them is to make a better and cleaner compiler implementation.
Current compiler code contains a lot of hacks and to be fair, is not a best example of good smalltalk code. What i'm proposing, is to establish a comittee for designing a better smalltalk compiler , which will replace old one on all existing Squeak forks. I think comittee should collect & discuss all feature requests, which new compiler should have, and then we can implement it and include in every and all forks. It is also, IMO, would be a good to make compiler modular - put it as separate package and maintain it as separate fork-independent entity. This will ensure that all existing forks in future will use the same compiler as the rest. Which will make people's life much easier :)
I hope with support of atomic loading (btw a new compiler is a good test-bed for atomic loading) we should be able to load it at will :)