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MoreVMs 2021 : Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs

by Fabio Niephaus

============================================================================ Call for Extended Abstracts and Talks: MoreVMs’21 5th International Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs Co-located with ‹Programming›’21 March 22nd to 26th, 2021, Online, United Kingdom https://2021.programming-conference.org/home/MoreVMs-2021 ============================================================================ Following four previous successful editions, the MoreVMs’21 workshop aims to bring together industrial and academic programmers to discuss the design, implementation, and usage of modern languages and runtimes. This includes aspects such as reuse of language runtimes, modular implementation, language design, and compilation strategies. By bringing together both researchers and practitioners, the workshop aims to enable a diverse discussion on how languages and runtimes are currently being utilized, and where they need to improve further. In addition to conventional workshop-style submissions, MoreVMs also accepts (and encourages) submissions that present early-stage work and emerging ideas. Relevant topics include, but are definitely not limited to, the following: - Extensible VM design (compiler- or interpreter-based VMs) - Reusable components (e.g. interpreters, garbage collectors, ...) - Static and dynamic compilation techniques - Techniques for targeting high-level languages such as JavaScript - Interoperability between languages - Tooling support (e.g. debugging, profiling, etc.) - Programming language development environments - Case studies of existing language implementation approaches - Language implementation challenges and trade-offs - Surveys and usage reports to understand usage in the wild - Ideas for more predictable performance - Ideas for how VMs could take advantage of new hardware features - Ideas for how we should build languages in the future Workshop Format and Submissions ------------------------------- We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts (2 to 4 pages long) and talk proposals (title and 400 words abstract) discussing new techniques, insights, experiences, works-in-progress, as well as future visions, from either an academic or industrial perspective. The extended abstracts and talk proposals, and if the speakers wish, their slides, will be published on the workshop's website. Alternatively, extended abstracts can be published as part of the companion of ‹Programming›’21 in the ACM DL. Publication in the ACM DL is conditional on the acceptance by the program committee. Please note that MoreVMs’21 is organized as an academic workshop, and as such, speakers will be required to register for the workshop. Author Instructions ------------------- Submissions should use the ACM `acmart` format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template If you are using LaTeX, submissions should use the 'acmart' document class with the 'sigconf' option, and with a font size of 9 point. Please use the Libertine/Biolinum font family. Please include page numbers in your submission using the LaTeX command `\settopmatter{printfolios=true}`. All submissions should be in PDF format. Please also ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes are legible. Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=morevms21 Important Dates --------------- Extended abstract and talk submissions: 2021-01-13 Author notification: 2021-02-15 Camera Ready: 2021-02-26 Workshop: TBA (between 2021-03-22 and 2021-03-26) All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE), i.e. GMT/UTC-12:00 hour. Program Committee ----------------- Maya Armyanova, Google, Germany Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, Université de Montréal, Canada Lukas Diekmann, King's College London, United Kingdom Charlie Gracie, Microsoft, Canada Daco Harkes, Google, Denmark Christian Humer, Oracle Labs, Switzerland Sophie Kaleba, University of Kent, United Kingdom Mikel Luján, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States Tobias Pape, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Tomoharu Ugawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Organizers ---------- Fabio Niephaus, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany David Leopoldseder, Oracle Labs, Austria

Dec. 16, 2020

Call for Beta-testers Pharo ARM64 JIT

by Stéphane Ducasse

Dear happy Pharoers and others, Over the last months we have been working on the implementation of a MIT-licensed ARMv8 Just-In-Time compiler for Pharo VM. We are very happy with the advance on this subject, as we have not only implemented a new backend but we have added more than 2500 tests to the JIT, the primitives, code generation, plugins and the VM in general. In the process we fixed many problems. It shows that following the roadmap that was decided during General assembly of PharoDays, we have been investing in the Pharo VM and that our efforts are greatly paying off. Also, we are generating a lot of documentation and improving the process to really democratize the development of the VM. So Pharo is a better shape than ever on such matter and this opens a lot of possibility for the future. ## Call for Beta-Testers We would like to announce that a first version of our JIT backend is available for beta-testing for ARM Linux machines using Ubuntu. We are now entering into a beta testing stage of the VM and the image in Ubuntu ARM 64. We would like to invite you to our beta testing phase for the VM. If you're interested in participating, please contact pablo.tesone(a)inria.fr. The following sections give more details of the current status, and the following steps including Apple Silicon, Windows ARM64 and Linux Open Build System support. ## Current Status Our objective is to have a running JIT for the new aarch64 architecture (ARM 64bits). This task includes not only a new backend for the JIT compiler but also adding support for external libraries, dependencies and the build process. This means having a working VM with comparable features as the one existing in Intel X64. We are targeting all the major operating systems running in this platform (Linux, OSX, Windows). Each of them present different restrictions and conditions. This is the current status: - We implemented a full backend for the JIT compiler targeting aarch64. - All the image side was adapted to run on it, tested on Ubuntu ARM 64 bits. - We added support for: Iceberg (Libgit) / Athens (Cairo) / SDL / GTK - We implemented a LibFFI-based FFI backend as the default one for Pharo 9 in aarch64 (next to come in all platforms). This opens the door to ease port the features to other platforms and OSes. ## Following Steps and Open Betas: Linux Open Build System (OBS), Windows ARM64 and Apple Silicon Linux Systems: In the following days, we will also support Raspbian (Debian) and Manjaro on ARM64. For doing so, we are pushing the last details in having a single Linux build system through OBS. So, if you want to start doing beta-testing of these versions please contact us. A public beta will be open in around two weeks. Windows Systems: We have extended the build process to fully support Microsoft Visual Studio compilers and more flexibility to select the targets, also we are building it to run in Windows ARM. To correctly run the VM in Windows it is needed to build all dependencies for aarch64. In the following weeks, we expect to have a working Non-JIT version and a JIT version. The remaining points to have a JIT version are related with the build process as the API of the operating system has not changed from X64 to aarch64. OSX Systems: Our third target is to have a working version for the newest Apple silicon. We are acquiring the corresponding hardware to test and to address the differences in the API exposed to JIT applications. As it is the case of the Windows VM, there is not need to change the machine code generation backend; but to compile external libraries, and particularities of the new OS version. Thanks for your support, and again, if you like to start beta testing the VM please contact us. In the meantime, we will continue giving you news about the current state and where are we going. The consortium would like to particularly thank Schmidt Buro and Lifeware for their contracts. Regards, Pablo in behalf of the Pharo Consortium Engineers -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

Dec. 12, 2020

UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, December 30th

by Giovanni Corriga

The UK Smalltalk User Group will have an extra meeting this year on Wednesday, December 30th. feenk's Tudor Girba will present the latest in moldable development with Glamorous Toolkit. Moldable development is an approach to programming through which we make the inside of software systems explainable. Glamorous Toolkit makes it practical. And beautiful. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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/275119813/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

Dec. 11, 2020

Re: [Esug-list] UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, November 25th

by Giovanni Corriga

Hi, it appears that Meetup is down - here is the zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94624791973?pwd=L2NXc0pWOGIxMm5pbC9DOWdxTzlXUT09 On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 13:25, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni(a)corriga.net> wrote: > The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, > November 25th. > > Stephen Travis Pope will present Siren9 and CSL6 - Frameworks and > Applications for Sound/Music Creation and Processing. > > The Siren system ( https://github.com/stpope/Siren9 ) is a > general-purpose software framework for music and sound composition, > processing, performance, and analysis; it is a collection of about 350 > classes written in Smalltalk-80 (40 kLOC or so). The current version of > Siren (9.0) works on VisualWorks Smalltalk and supports streaming I/O via > OpenSoundControl (OSC), MIDI, and multi-channel audio ports. The CREATE > Signal Library (CSL)( https://github.com/stpope/CSL6 ) is a > cross-platform C++ framework for digital audio signal synthesis, analysis, > spatialization and interactive sound/music application development. CSL was > developed at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) starting in > the late 1990s. This presentation will introduce both package and > demonstrate their use together to construct real-time compositional and > music synthesis software. > > Stephen Travis Pope ( http://heaveneverywhere.com/stp ) is an > award-winning composer, film-maker, computer scientist and social activist > based in Santa Barbara, California. He is currently active as a software > development contractor and intellectual property expert through FASTLab. > His music and video compositions are released through HeavenEverywhere > Media. Stephen has used the Smalltalk programming system since 1984 and > made several significant contributions to it, though he remains frustrated > by programming environments in general. > > Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, 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/cbklbrybcpbhc/ ) to > receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks! >

Nov. 25, 2020

Virtual Reality and Smalltalk

by Alexandre Bergel

Hello, With Victor we have been working on a Pharo programming environment entirely made in Virtual Reality. We need feedback from VR and Smalltalk / Pharo lovers. The url gives plenty of screenshots of the environment: https://github.com/Vito217/PharoVRIDE We need people to try it and give us feedback. We can go with you hand by hand. You just need to register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V-3mwG-JvbfgitoWdqr7H2qmh-fVlnui7LuNZ2qdwU… You need to have a VR device to participate. Cheers, Victor, Geoffrey, Leonel, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

Nov. 18, 2020

Call for Events for <Programming> 2021

by Fabio Niephaus

<Programming> 2021 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming March 22-26, 2021, Online, United Kingdom http://2021.programming-conference.org ******************************************************** CALL FOR EVENTS ******************************************************** https://2021.programming-conference.org/track/programming-2021-workshops To build a community and to foster an environment where participants can exchange ideas and experiences related to practical software development, ‹Programming› will host a number of workshops. As <Programming> is online this year, the main goal of workshops is to promote social gathering and lively discussions amongst participants. This edition’s workshops will replace the social experience of a physical event and as such, their topics and organization may deviate from their physical counterparts. So they should be the main events in the conference week. A workshop can be intended as a collaborative forum to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They can also be regarded as a forum for lively discussion of innovative ideas, progress, or practical experience on programming and applied software development in general for specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs. This year, we would like to encourage organizers to be creative and experiment with all kinds of events including hallways discussions, academic parties besides the more traditional workshops. Possible types of workshops include a meeting like a Dagstuhl Seminar or Shonan meeting, a gathering for an international research project, a tool demo/tutorial, hands-on workshops in which participants experience one or several aspects of practical software development, social gathering around a particular topic and so on. Open meetings are preferable but closed ones could be accepted. We are flexible and welcome innovative social gatherings; if you have any ideas or questions, please contact the workshops co-chairs. The duration of workshops is in general one day, but we encourage the submission of half-day workshop proposals on focused topics as well. If desired, the workshop proceedings can be published in the post-conference Companion Proceedings, in the ACM Digital Library. ### Submission Deadlines Deadline: December 3rd, 2020 Notifications will go out as soon as possible, within a week after the deadline. ### Workshop Selection Committee Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) ### Submission and Workshop Process Please submit your workshop proposal electronically via the submission system: https://2021.programming-conference.org/createProposal/ccc82a7e-eabb-40db-a… Please adhere to the workshop proposal guidelines given below and provide all requested information about the proposed workshop. Please keep it brief and use the provided form. The intention is not to spend time on proposal writing, but on preparing the organization of the workshop. To coordinate with the deadlines of the main conference, the following deadlines have to be respected by workshops: **Workshop web page/site and CFP:** December 11th 2020 **Deadline for submissions to the workshops:** - possibly after January 7th 2021 (final notification issue 3) - no later than February 1th 2021 **Notification of authors:** March 1st, 2021, the latest, to be before the early registration deadline. **Deadline for Camera-Ready Papers (Companion Proceedings at ACM DL):** May 1st 2021 **Workshop dates:** March 22nd to 26th 2021 ### Workshop Proposal Guidelines Please include the following information either directly in the proposal, or CFP. The submission system has a form that includes an abstract (for the website), the CFP, and the remaining proposal. CFPs often cover the same information, duplication is not necessary for such cases. Organizers of a workshop previously co-located at <Programming> are allowed to submit a minimal proposal including information for the questions marked with (*). 1. What is the motivation for the workshop? - Objectives - Intended audience - Relevance (with respect to the topics of the <Programming> conference) 2(*). Who organizes the workshop? - Organizers and primary contact (name / affiliation / email) - Brief details on the organizers (previous workshop organizing experience, etc.) - Data on potential previous iterations of the workshop - How many participants do you expect (please make at least an educated guess) - What kind of software do you expect to use to run the workshop (e.g. slack, Zoom, Teams, etc.) - Advertisement: Planed advertisement strategy to ensure participation 3. Is there going to be a workshop program committee? - if so, please list the members (indicated as finalized or expected) 4. What is the planned workshop format? - Planned deadlines - Intended submission format (e.g. intended format for articles, posters, abstracts, or any other kind of submission requested to participate in the workshop) - Evaluation process for submissions - Intended workshop format (including duration, number of presentations/talks, planned invited talks/keynotes, etc.) 5(*). What is the intended publication of accepted submissions? - ACM DL post companion proceedings and/or website pre/post-proceedings ### Notes on Companion Proceedings Workshops that wish to have their proceedings published in the ACM DL will have the opportunity to have post proceedings. However, chairs will be responsible for making sure that camera ready deadlines are respected so that final copies and metadata are collected on time. The deadlines mentioned above are **strict**. Please consider them carefully when determining your deadlines for the workshop.

Nov. 16, 2020

Re: [Esug-list] IWST20 Event 18th and 19th of November, registrations open

by Craig Latta

Hi Vincent-- What is the duration of each day's session? thanks, -C *** On 13 November 2020 at 05:39 pacific time, Vincent Aranega wrote: > Hi all, > > Finally we are happy to annouce that the IWST event will be held > Wednesday 18th of November and 19th of November, starting at 4pm, Paris > hour. We tried to respect as much as possible everyone's contraints > exposed by the different polls. Thank to all of you for your help! > > The event will be virtual (as you can understand), you can find the > registeration link here: > > https://esug.github.io/2020-Conference/cfpIWST2020.html > > Registration are free. > > Thanks again for your help, we really hope to see all at for this first > Virtual IWST. > > Vincent Aranega > Loïc Lagadec > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- Craig Latta :: research computer scientist Black Page Digital :: Berkeley, California 663137D7940BF5C0AFC 1349FB2ADA32C4D5314CE

Nov. 13, 2020

IWST20 Event 18th and 19th of November, registrations open

by Vincent Aranega

Hi all, Finally we are happy to annouce that the IWST event will be held Wednesday 18th of November and 19th of November, starting at 4pm, Paris hour. We tried to respect as much as possible everyone's contraints exposed by the different polls. Thank to all of you for your help! The event will be virtual (as you can understand), you can find the registeration link here: https://esug.github.io/2020-Conference/cfpIWST2020.html Registration are free. Thanks again for your help, we really hope to see all at for this first Virtual IWST. Vincent Aranega Loïc Lagadec

Nov. 13, 2020

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [Ann] Pharo new version available & mooc needs subtitle translaters

by Stéphane Ducasse

Thanks!!! > On 9 Nov 2020, at 18:02, Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > El mié., 4 nov. 2020 a las 5:30, Stéphane Ducasse (<stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>>) escribió: > Hello > > We are about to launch the new version of the Pharo mooc. Spread the word around you. It will open the 9th of november > https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41024+session01/about <https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41024+session01/about> > > > This new version contains > 70 new videos about the Pharo ide (in french and english voice) + subtitles > better english dubs > > Now we are looking for help for the subtitles > All the subtitles of the previous mooc and the new ones are at > https://github.com/pharo-mooc/PharoMooc/tree/master/2020-All-Subtitles-Reor… <https://github.com/pharo-mooc/PharoMooc/tree/master/2020-All-Subtitles-Reor…> > The new ones in folders named C048SD or 2018-Prese* > The old ones in folders named C019SD. > > > I will help to translate the new ones to Spanish. > > Cheers, > > Hernán -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

Nov. 11, 2020

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Ann] Pharo new version available & mooc needs subtitle translaters

by Stéphane Ducasse

thanks! > On 10 Nov 2020, at 10:17, Tomohiro Oda <tomohiro.tomo.oda(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I'll work on new Japanese subtitles. > --- > tomo > > 2020年11月4日(水) 17:30 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>: >> >> Hello >> >> We are about to launch the new version of the Pharo mooc. Spread the word around you. It will open the 9th of november >> https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41024+session01/about >> >> >> This new version contains >> 70 new videos about the Pharo ide (in french and english voice) + subtitles >> better english dubs >> >> Now we are looking for help for the subtitles >> All the subtitles of the previous mooc and the new ones are at >> https://github.com/pharo-mooc/PharoMooc/tree/master/2020-All-Subtitles-Reor… >> The new ones in folders named C048SD or 2018-Prese* >> The old ones in folders named C019SD. >> >> For example in https://github.com/pharo-mooc/PharoMooc/tree/master/2020-All-Subtitles-Reor… >> you see the files for the old videos that we will reuse for this new mooc >> as well as the subtitles in french and english for the new videos. >> >> We are looking for subtitles in Spanish, Japanese for the new files: >> in C048 and 2018-PresequelOOP-ENG folder, files named W*-Live* or W*-Redo* >> >> Of course we would love to have the subtitles in portugese and german too, and any other language :). >> >> Thanks in advance for your time. But this mooc is really important for our community. >> >> S. >> -------------------------------------------- >> Stéphane Ducasse >> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org >> 03 59 35 87 52 >> Assistant: Aurore Dalle >> FAX 03 59 57 78 50 >> TEL 03 59 35 86 16 >> S. Ducasse - Inria >> 40, avenue Halley, >> Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza >> Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 >> France >> -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

Nov. 11, 2020