On 2 May 2018 at 19:17, Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> > On 28/04/2018, 13:06, "Ben Coman" <btc at 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 beingsŠ
> >>
> >> 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 didn't really know enough to answer properly so I went digging to learn a
bit more.
I started another thread to avoid getting too deep in Pharo stuff here.
http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Bootstrap-familiarity-td5075568.html

I believe its based on the same system that Guille used for Candle,
but aimed at being so minimal.
A general description available in the section "Bootstrapping Pharo from
sources"...
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo


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.
>

Cool!


> 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.
>

Could be wonderful.  You've probably seen this old thread.
http://forum.world.st/WebAssembly-td4926166.html

cheers -ben
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