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Re: [ANN] Pharo 12 released !

by stephane ducasse

Thanks to all the team and contributors for this cool release. S > On 26 Apr 2024, at 12:18, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: > > We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 12! > > What is Pharo? > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > > > Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the way down. > Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! > Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! > Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. > Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> License and available on GitHub <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo> > ... more on the Pharo Features page <http://www.pharo.org/features>. > > In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and improvements is available in our Changelog <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo120Chang…> > Some highlights of this amazing version: > > Highlights > > New breakpoint system > > The debug point system is a breakpoint model that supersedes the previous implementation of breakpoints and watchpoints. They are configurable, composable, and extensible. The traditional breakpoints remain available, including conditional breakpoints, one-time breakpoints, and object-centric breakpoints. Additionally, there are new types of breakpoints, such as chained-breakpoints, which condition the activation of certain breakpoints on the triggering of others (e.g., breakpoint B only activates if breakpoint A is hit first). Debug points also feature a dedicated browser and integration options. > > > > Tools > > Scalable fluid class syntax is now the default one > Preparing the introduction of the Bloc graphic system by migrating more tools to Spec2 widgets > Spec2 UI framework enhancements to support GTK 4 > Leaner version of the Metacello package manager > More robust and strict mode for FFI > System > > New architecture for refactorings and domain specific transformations > Code loading speed improvement > Fast browsing via fully optimized package tags > Optmized memory usage via optimized method protocols > Compiler simplifications and improvements > Virtual machine > > Massive image support with permanent space > String/ByteArray comparison speed up > Development Effort > > This new version is the result of 1895 Pull Requests integrated just in the Pharo repository. We have closed 865 issues and received contributions from more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: > > http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools> > http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser> > http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec <https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec> > http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg <https://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg> > http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 <https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3> > http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown <https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown> > http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments <https://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments> > http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm> > Contributors > > We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 12.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your contributions. > > The Pharo Team > > Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features > > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download <https://pharo.org/download> > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation <https://pharo.org/documentation> > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

April 26, 2024

Re: [ANN] Pharo 12 released !

by Benoit Verhaeghe

Congrats for this release. At Berger-Levrault we are super eager to test it! Benoit Le ven. 26 avr. 2024, 12:22, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> a écrit : > Congratulation once again for this new release. Can‘t wait to put my hands > onto it. > > Norbert > > Am 26.04.2024 um 12:19 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm(a)gmail.com>: > > > > Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: > > We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 12! > What is Pharo? > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > > - Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, > no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with > a full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all > the way down. > - Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of > your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production > environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps > again! > - Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger > unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, > restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! > - Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more > than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of > people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. > - Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT > <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> License and available on GitHub > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo> > > ... more on the Pharo Features page <http://www.pharo.org/features>. > > In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of > improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of > usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and > improvements is available in our Changelog > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo120Chang…> > > Some highlights of this amazing version: > Highlights New breakpoint system > > The debug point system is a breakpoint model that supersedes the previous > implementation of breakpoints and watchpoints. They are configurable, > composable, and extensible. The traditional breakpoints remain available, > including conditional breakpoints, one-time breakpoints, and object-centric > breakpoints. Additionally, there are new types of breakpoints, such as > chained-breakpoints, which condition the activation of certain breakpoints > on the triggering of others (e.g., breakpoint B only activates if > breakpoint A is hit first). Debug points also feature a dedicated browser > and integration options. > > Tools > > - Scalable fluid class syntax is now the default one > - Preparing the introduction of the Bloc graphic system by migrating > more tools to Spec2 widgets > - Spec2 UI framework enhancements to support GTK 4 > - Leaner version of the Metacello package manager > - More robust and strict mode for FFI > > System > > - New architecture for refactorings and domain specific transformations > - Code loading speed improvement > - Fast browsing via fully optimized package tags > - Optmized memory usage via optimized method protocols > - Compiler simplifications and improvements > > Virtual machine > > - Massive image support with permanent space > - String/ByteArray comparison speed up > > Development Effort > > This new version is the result of 1895 Pull Requests integrated just in > the Pharo repository. We have closed 865 issues and received contributions > from more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the > separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: > > - http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools > <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools> > - http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser > <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser> > - http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec > <https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec> > - http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg > <https://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg> > - http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 > <https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3> > - http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown > <https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown> > - http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments > <https://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments> > - http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm> > > Contributors > > We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but > most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our > great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the > world contributed to Pharo 12.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, > participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of > helpful tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your > contributions. > > The Pharo Team > > Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features > > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download <https://pharo.org/download> > > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation > <https://pharo.org/documentation> > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org >

April 26, 2024

Re: [ANN] Pharo 12 released !

by Norbert Hartl

April 26, 2024

[ANN] Pharo 12 released !

by Esteban Lorenzano

Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 12! What is Pharo? Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. * Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the way down. * Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! * Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! * Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. * Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> License and available on GitHub <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo> ... more on the Pharo Features page <http://www.pharo.org/features>. In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and improvements is available in our Changelog <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo120Chang…> Some highlights of this amazing version: Highlights New breakpoint system The debug point system is a breakpoint model that supersedes the previous implementation of breakpoints and watchpoints. They are configurable, composable, and extensible. The traditional breakpoints remain available, including conditional breakpoints, one-time breakpoints, and object-centric breakpoints. Additionally, there are new types of breakpoints, such as chained-breakpoints, which condition the activation of certain breakpoints on the triggering of others (e.g., breakpoint B only activates if breakpoint A is hit first). Debug points also feature a dedicated browser and integration options. Tools * Scalable fluid class syntax is now the default one * Preparing the introduction of the Bloc graphic system by migrating more tools to Spec2 widgets * Spec2 UI framework enhancements to support GTK 4 * Leaner version of the Metacello package manager * More robust and strict mode for FFI System * New architecture for refactorings and domain specific transformations * Code loading speed improvement * Fast browsing via fully optimized package tags * Optmized memory usage via optimized method protocols * Compiler simplifications and improvements Virtual machine * Massive image support with permanent space * String/ByteArray comparison speed up Development Effort This new version is the result of 1895 Pull Requests integrated just in the Pharo repository. We have closed 865 issues and received contributions from more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: * http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools> * http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser> * http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec <https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec> * http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg <https://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg> * http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 <https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3> * http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown <https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown> * http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments <https://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments> * http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm> Contributors We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 12.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your contributions. The Pharo Team Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download <https://pharo.org/download> Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation <https://pharo.org/documentation>

April 26, 2024

Re: [ANN] Soil release v1

by Tim Mackinnon

That's really exciting news... appreciate you sharing it with the wider community (I know when you mentioned its existence a while back I went and watched the Esug recordings to get more info, and looked at some of the extensive test cases to get a feel on what it looked like - its neat). Having multiple options for persisting data (from simple Fuel up to Soil and Glorp and Gemstone) is very useful. Tim On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, at 12:52 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote: > ...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as usual it doesn't go that fast. > > But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public release v1. So what is soil? > > Soil is an object oriented database in pharo <http://pharo.org/>. It is transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy to inspect, ... > > More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil > > This release is still considered early stage because > > • although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and there are other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it is not fully battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining I need somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;) > • there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage collection, etc. > > So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to try. > > Hopy you enjoy it! > > Norbert & Marcus > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-leave(a)lists.esug.org >

April 24, 2024

[ANN] Soil release v1

by Norbert Hartl

...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as usual it doesn't go that fast. But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public release v1. So what is soil? Soil is an object oriented database in pharo <http://pharo.org/>. It is transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy to inspect, ... More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil This release is still considered early stage because although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and there are other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it is not fully battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining I need somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;) there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage collection, etc. So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to try. Hopy you enjoy it! Norbert & Marcus

April 24, 2024

UKSTUG meeting - Tudor Gîrba: What exactly is Glamorous Toolkit? - 24 April 2024

by UK Smalltalk

To some people Glamorous Toolkit is a Pharo environment. To others it’s a knowledge management system. Others might see a code analysis platform, a data visualization or an API browsing tool. Yet others see the graphical stack with its interactive editors. Glamorous Toolkit is all of these. But it’s really also none of these. These are merely examples of the many forms the environment can be molded to. And there can be many more. Glamorous Toolkit is primarily an environment that makes it possible to create many experiences seamlessly and contextually. This then leads to a new way of programming that we call Moldable Development. Tudor Gîrba is a software environmentalist and the CEO of feenk.com ( http://feenk.com/ ) where he works with an amazing team to make the inside of systems explainable. Much of the work is embodied in Glamorous Toolkit ( gtoolkit.com) a novel environment that enables moldable development. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/300575234/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

April 22, 2024

[IWST 2024 NEW Track] Presentations on previously published contributions. new deadline is 30.4.!!!

by Gordana Rakic

Dear ESUG friends, IWST 2024 opened a *Call for Presentations on previously published contributions*. https://esug.org/2024-Conference/IWST-24-preprints.html We invited authors of contributions related to IWST topics, accepted for publication in Journals and Proceedings of top-rated international conferences within the previous 2 years, to submit an abstract and present their published results to the IWST workshop collocated with ESUG. Now, we are happy to *extend the deadline for talk proposals* to the end of this month, *30.04.2024.* If you have a submission that potentially can fit the above criteria soon (submitted with a good potential to be accepted before the conference) , please do not hesitate to propose its presentation. We are looking forward for your talk proposals! IWST team

April 15, 2024

Early rate deadline is approaching....

by stephane ducasse

Hello People do not miss this unique opportunity to participate in ESUG in early July https://esug.org Pay attention that the early rate end is approaching… 15 of April 2024. https://registration.esug.org/ESUG Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

April 9, 2024

Call for Presentations @ ESUG 2024

by stephane ducasse

Dear Friends The deadline for the presentation proposal was 1st of April. We extended it until 8th of April. You are probably busy but we the organisers deserve consideration too. ESUG 2024 Call for Presentations from 8 to 11 July 2024 Lille France https://esug.github.io <https://esug.github.io/> https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/conf2024.html You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: - Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/supportesug/becomeasponsor/ - Submit a talk, software to the award competition, or a paper to IWST http://https://esug.github.io/2024-Conference/IWST2024.html - Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (180 people at Koln 2019)! - Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll in the the Student Volunteers program. See below. ## Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45 min for hands-on tutorials. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: - XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports - Model-driven development, Web development, Team management - Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks - Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics - SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages - Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business We added two types of sessions in addition to the regular talks and ''Show us your project'' sessions. - Show your business in a 10-minute session (Get prepared!!) - Teaching pearls: we want some sessions on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP. We expect to have several 10 to 15-minute sessions aggregated. ### How to submit? Make a Pull Request here https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2024-Conference/talks [Or but only if you are not connected to the world… send an email to stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>] Title: [ESUG 2024] Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio:

April 4, 2024