What about Magma 1.5?  I think it is very relevant to Squeak.  News it too?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Quick question.  I would normally take a message like this and announce it on news.squeak.org and other places.  Since this release comes from 3D ICC I wanted to see first if anyone sees a conflict between my role as news team guy and my real job.  Would anyone object to my adding this announcement to news.squeak.org?
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> Thanks!
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> All the best,
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
>> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Göran Krampe
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 4:36 AM
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; Pharo Development
>> Subject: [squeak-dev] SqueakNim - an FFI glue code tool
>>
>> Hi fellow Smalltalkers!
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>> At 3DICC we are using Nim (http://nim-lang.org) to write our performance
>> critical code that typically otherwise would have been written in C/C++.
>> But now we have Nim :)
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>> Nim can generate dlls/so libraries following C conventions so they can easily
>> be called via FFI.
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>> Andreas Rumpf (author of Nim who works with us) wrote a small utility
>> called SqueakNim - its a set of Nim macros that generates the .st primitive
>> calls based on the Nim code, so it takes out some grunt work and matches
>> up types as far as it can. Simple, but very nice.
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>> The docs etc are a bit unpolished, but the trivial example in "tests"
>> has comments in it and it works in Squeak 5, Pharo 3, Pharo 4 and I guess in
>> most versions of Squeak/Pharo.
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>> Why would you be interested?
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>> - Nim is great fun! C/C++ is torture. Same performance, nuff said.
>> - Nim has a tool called c2nim that wraps C *and* C++ libraries.
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>> That last part is a killer. We use c2nim to wrap Urho3D - a huge C++ game
>> engine, works great, and that wrapper is also open source btw, Urhonimo.
>>
>> How do I use it? See README at:
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>> https://gitlab.3dicc.com/3dicc/squeaknim
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>> For some more information my article (predating this tool) might have some
>> details:
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>> http://goran.krampe.se/2014/11/03/squeak-to-nim
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>> ...and if you want to ask questions, hop onto freenode on either #squeak,
>> #pharo or #nim. Me and Andreas are around.
>>
>> regards, Göran
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