2008/11/21 Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net>:
>> For me the biggest issue has been trying to run my code from outside
>> Squeak. This includes running Squeak headless to do something
>> script-like and configuring a GUI application to run in a way that
>> doesn't require the user to know they are running Squeak. Both of these
>> are supposedly possible, but very difficult to get right.
>
> 1. The VM, it's weak, no multithreading, few IO options.
>
> 2. The restriction to image based smalltalk instead of the ability to
> run discreet programs...
>
> Image based smalltalk is awesome but it makes it difficult to interface
> smalltalk code with external systems.

i think, community would be able to overcome both problems, if there
was an option to build VM as shared (or static) library
to include it in own project.
Then image plays role as external module, which you can load and play
with, and then drop it once you don't need it anymore and load another
one.
As well, as having a reentrant interpreter would allow to interoperate with it.

>
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.