Squeak for the masses? [was: primitiveApplyToFromTo]
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Mon Sep 18 15:40:31 UTC 2006
Hi Ron,
I've asked David Griswold who posts over in vm-dev about reusing Squeak's
ObjectMemory, the answer was: rather not (because slangish, because
squeakish). And earlier Craig asked him if they want the VM be written in
Smalltalk, the answer was: too huge a project for now, but in the long
term self-hosting and self-debugging would be great.
BTW the Strongtalk list is @
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/strongtalk/
This perhaps looks like a not so fast development project; also
performance for them is critical due to startup and compilation pauses.
But perhaps they will find acceptable material - resuable things - and
also funds and hands with VM knowledge.
Time will show. Indeed, David wrote that their goal is producing a version
of the Strongtalk VM for Squeak ...
/Klaus
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:29:15 +0200, Ron wrote:
> Klaus wrote:
>> Let's bring Squeak to the masses. Or, am I wrong with this?
>
> No you are right here, but we need to get organized and support the
> community that is needed to take over from the previous "owners" of
> squeak.
>
>> I run a commercial business and want to base my success on Squeak.
>
> [+1 big]
>
> When do nominations for the foundation start!
>
> Ron
>
> P.S. Klaus have you looked at the StrongTalk VM yet?
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