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Craig Latta - Livecoding Language Models: AI Context in Live Environments - 26 March 2025
by UK Smalltalk March 17, 2025

March 17, 2025

For our March meeting, Craig Latta will show how to leverage AI language models in a livecoding environment. Using a tool creates context for complimentary tools. For example, selecting an object in a Smalltalk inspector creates useful context for browsing the class of that object. This is a potent idea in an integrated development environment, where multiple tools operate on related information. The extensive context in a live environment enables powerful collaboration with contemporary AI language models. Tools built from that collaboration could greatly augment human capability. Craig Latta ( https://thiscontext.com/author/ccrraaiigg/ ) will show some foundations for them, and suggest ways of easing their construction through the systematic description of existing tool functionality. For a preview, please see Craig's blog at thiscontext.com ( http://thiscontext.com/ ). Craig Latta is a research computer scientist in Berkeley and Amsterdam, with interests including livecoding, music performance, and interactive visualization. The discovery of a mysteriously-placed Blue Book at university led to stints at several exploratory labs, and a pursuit of improvisation wherever code is found. His current work focuses on polyglot computing with WebAssembly, the novel compiler framework Epigram, and human augmentation through AI. 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/305761372/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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Fwd: [SCLIT 2025] Call for Papers, submission deadline: 7th of March 2025
by Gordana Rakic March 4, 2025

March 4, 2025

Dear all, we are organizing a symposium on computer languages in the broadest sense of the term. For more information tak ea look in the mail below. See you in Prague!? Gordana -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [SCLIT 2025] Call for Papers, submission deadline: 7th of March 2025 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:44:46 +0100 From: SCLIT Team <sclit(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs> To: sclit(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs CC: Gordana Rakic <goca(a)dmi.uns.ac.rs>, Nicolas Cardozo Alvarez <n.cardozo(a)uniandes.edu.co> ** *Dear Potential Participant,* *** We would like again to draw your attention to the 9th SCLIT symposium which will take place in Prague, Czechia, between 2nd and 6th June 2025. After the break we've made for several years, the SCLIT symposium would be organized again. This year it will be hosted by the <Programming> conference. While organizers of <Programming> will make organizational decisions, the symposium keeps its academic autonomy. The symposium is devoted to the various aspects of computer languages and their roles in software engineering, science, education, etc. Submissions that describe work in progress and provoke discussions and position papers are also welcome. SCLIT welcomes submissions that are the result of original and unpublished research. The scope of the workshop is wide and versatile within the theme of computer languages. Particularly, SCLIT invites papers that include, but are not limited to the following topics: - Languages: theoretical aspects of programming languages, programming paradigms, script languages, modelling languages, domain-specific languages, graphical languages, markup languages, specification languages, transformation languages, formal languages, intermediate languages… - Implementations: Compilers, debuggers, interpreters, virtual machines, transformation systems, translators, transpilers, intermediate representations, … - Tools: software metrics, static analyzers, clone detectors, abstract interpreters, visualizers, … We especially encourage submissions addressing problems encompassing multiple languages in a language-independent or cross-language manner. Paper contributions should not exceed 8 pages, including all figures, tables, and bibliography. Submissions will be managed on the EasyChair submission portal. We receive your submissions at the submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sclit2025. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee. Accepted submissions will be published as part of the <Programming> conference companion. Our preferred venue is the Dagstuhl OpenAccess Series in Informatics (https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/series/OASIcs) which uses a paper template available on the OASIcs web page (https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/series/OASIcs) We will be able to confirm the publisher for the conference companion by 15 February. Please check back here for final formatting guidelines. We will ask you to use the appropriate template for the camera-ready version but for reviewing we will accept submissions using any usual computer science paper format (OASIcs, ACM, etc.). *The submission deadline is the 7th of March 2025.* Call for Papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/SCLIT2025 <https://easychair.org/cfp/SCLIT2025> https://2025.programming-conference.org/home/sclit-2025 Symposium info with history:http://www.sclit.org <http://www.sclit.org> SCLIT Symposium 2025 https://2025.programming-conference.org/home/sclit-2025 <https://2025.programming-conference.org/home/sclit-2025> Conference site: https://2025.programming-conference.org/ <https://2025.programming-conference.org/> We apologize for cross-posting and kindly ask you to forward this information to all interested persons. Best regards and thank you, SCLIT team *

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: Richard Ronteltap - SmallJS - 26 February 2025
by UK Smalltalk Feb. 26, 2025

Feb. 26, 2025

For our February 2025 presentation, Richard Ronteltap will present his SmallJS project. SmallJS ( https://small-js.org/Home/Home.html ) is a free and open source implementation of the elegant and powerful Smalltalk-80 (ST) language. It compiles to JavaScript (JS) that runs in modern browsers or in Node.js. SmallJS is file based, not image based, so you can develop in your favorite IDE. The default setup is for Visual Studio Code, with ST syntax coloring and step debugging! You code separately from the SmallJS base libraries (image) and only the parts you use are imported automatically when running your app. SmallJS is fully object oriented, so customizable on every level. For usability, ST class and method names are kept mostly equal to their familiar JS counterparts. JS libraries already encapsulated in ST are: Browsers: Document, Window, HTML elements, events, CSS, streams. Node.js: HTTP server, Express, 4 databases, files. SmallJS is mostly intended for use by JS devs that want a nicer language to work in. But it can also be used by existing ST devs that are willing to learn a new ST framework that can directly run in browsers and can seamlessly access the powerful Node.js ecosystem, without the need for bridges between overlapping frameworks. Richard ( https://github.com/FunctionPoint ) studied Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where he used used Smalltalk-80 to write a query optimizer for a prototype OODBMS. He currently works in IT / Software Management within the IT department of the UvA. 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/305761370/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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[ANN] ESUG on Mastodon and Bluesky
by Marcus Denker Feb. 14, 2025

Feb. 14, 2025

Hi, We added accounts for ESUG on Mastodon and Bluesky: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/esugsmalltalk.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@esugsmalltalk Marcus

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Improved https://archive.esug.org
by Marcus Denker Feb. 14, 2025

Feb. 14, 2025

Hello, We have improved the setup behind https://archive.esug.org You will find there the Slides of all past ESUG events and historical documents related to Smalltalk. What is improved? - More space - SSL is now working If you have Slides or in general documents that you think make sense to be archived, please contact me. Marcus

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Pharo Association 2024 Review
by tesonep＠gmail.com Feb. 5, 2025

Feb. 5, 2025

Dear Pharo Association members, Pharoers and Smalltalkers from all over the world We are writing you to thank you again for your support of the Pharo Association. With your help, we are able to perform a lot of activities to increase the impact of Pharo, enlarge its community and have a better programming life for everyone. For the people who are not members of the association, we take the opportunity to tell you all the accomplishments of the association last year and invite you to participate in any of the forms our association provides. We want to profit this time of the year to tell you the most important actions that the association has supported the last years. - *Infrastructure for Pharo: *as an association, we support the maintenance of the infrastructure used by Pharo. We provided the funds for the hosting of Pharo services (website, file server, mailing lists) and domains. Most of the services that we daily use are supported by your help. Thanks for allowing the community to use the Pharo Launcher or getting an image from ZeroConf. - *Conference Sponsoring:* we all love to go to nice conferences and much more if there is Pharo-related content on it. This year as it is tradition we supported the *ESUG 2024 *conference. Having a place to interchange and to publish all the advances in Pharo is key to its development. - *Summer School: *With the objective of extending the Pharo community, in 2024, we sponsored a summer school at Split, Croatia about advanced object-oriented design with Pharo. Due to the nice reception and results, this year we are again sponsoring a summer school in February at Montpellier. - *Pharo Music: *Smalltalk has been always a language close to the arts, and Pharo is not an exception. This year, we heavily sponsored the development of Phausto, Coypu and CoypuIDE. *Phausto <https://github.com/lucretiomsp/phausto>* is a library and API that allows to use the FAUST compiler and its libraries (Functional Audio Stream) inside Pharo. *Coypu <https://github.com/lucretiomsp/Coypu>* is a package with methods and classes for Pharo designed for programming music on-the-fly, and it has its *IDE <https://github.com/pharo-graphics/CoypuIDE>* developed in Bloc. This tools has been presented in numerous technical and musical conferences, and in all of them they have generated a lot of attention and interest. We are much than happy with the results we are obtaining. - *Student Sponsoring:* we sponsored the access of students using Pharo to Summer Schools and visits to labs. We sponsored also the food and drinks of small meetings where students can learn and play with Pharo. This sponsoring is particularly important because often the labs are not allowed to pay trips of students, limiting the access to international students. Because of that, we sponsored students from Argentina (2), Serbia, Madagascar (3), Chile, and Bolivia. Without your support we would not be able to plant Pharo seeds all over the world. Your help is base to increase the community and to help all the people interested in Pharo. - *Book Sponsoring: *During last year, we have sponsored the write of 4 new books about Pharo. These books covers subjects for newcomers and experts, going from the style of code, testing and UI creation. All the books are available to the community (*https://books.pharo.org/ <https://books.pharo.org/>*) and even you can get a physical copy. We consider that we need to provide the material to let all the people interested to grow in their Pharo experience. We want to thank you again for your support as all the support we are getting are from our members. We remember you that you can renew or increase your subscription at *https://association.pharo.org <https://association.pharo.org/>*. Your support is really important for us because it enables us to do actions that would be almost impossible to do. Finally we remember you that we are always open to listen your opinions and suggestions, and to receive requests for sponsoring or support at *association(a)pharo.org <association(a)pharo.org>*. Sorry if you have got this mails from different channels. Thank you so much again, and we desired you and excellent new year! *Pharo Association*

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About String and Symbol equality
by stephane ducasse Feb. 2, 2025

Feb. 2, 2025

Hello people In Pharo (following Squeak tradition) a string is equals to its symbol representation. e.g. ’tintin’ = #tintin > true In other Smalltalk dialects this is not the case. We have been working (sponsored by Lifeware) to support both semantics (yes this is a kind of daunting task and it can raise bugs). Our objective is to help people make business with Pharo. So “simple” cross compatibility is something that we consider e.g. to deploy applications in Gemstone for example. (We would love to have a Pharo compiler working on Gemstone generating Gemstone VM bytecodes this is why we love the work of James Foster but this is another story). So since we are pragmatic people we could be convinced that the semantics of Pharo is not good :) and that by default we should use the semantics of GS or VW. The first step is to be able to choose which one to use within Pharo and be able to switch. We are nearly there for Pharo 13. The second step is to get a nice default. And we need the help of the community for this. Do you have any advice, arguments for and against any of the two choices that could be put on the table to influence our decisions for Pharo 14. So let us know :) Stef on the behalf of the Pharo consortium. 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

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: 2024 retrospective and what to expect in 2025 - 29 January 2025
by UK Smalltalk Jan. 28, 2025

Jan. 28, 2025

For our first meeting of the year, we'll hold a retrospective on what has happened in the Smalltalk world in 2024, and discuss what we can expect in 2025. Join us to share what you learned, and what you are looking forward to! 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/305378616/ ) to receive the meeting details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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Little poll to help us improving Spotter
by stephane ducasse Jan. 25, 2025

Jan. 25, 2025

Hi Pharoers We’re gathering feedback to improve the Spotter tool in Pharo. The survey is quick and focuses on your experience with it, if you could take a few minutes to share your thoughts it would be great. Here's the link: https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/319877?lang=en Best regards, Santiago 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

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IWST 2024 Proceedings published
by Gordana Rakic Jan. 25, 2025

Jan. 25, 2025

Dear authors, dear community, Our IWST 2024 proceedings is now online at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3893/ Have a good reading and see you in Gdansk! Best regards, Gordana, Guille and Steven On 5. 12. 24. 23:44, Gordana Raki? wrote: > Dear authors, > > Thank you for all your collaboration and patience in collecting > materials for our IWST 2024 proceedings. > > Now, we are getting ready to submit the proceedings to the CEUR-WS > portal. > > CEUR changed the template in the meantime (fonts, margins, etc), and > pdfs generated now are a bit (or much in some cases) different than > ones we have received from you. Therefore, we provide you with your > final papers together with the ones generated by CEUR tools to see the > differences and to agree or complain. There are also other reasons of > differences, e.g., applying of difference referencing style (author + > year need more space than just a numeration). > > Please go to https://perun.pmf.uns.ac.rs/proceedings/iwst2024/, look > specifically at the camera-ready paper and/or the finaly genarated > version by using good cls/template and notify us if some final touch > is needed. There is no need to check other parts. We will take care of > this. > > Please be fast. Once we submit the package and they process the > submission, they will give us 48 hours to react, so we have to be > ready. Therefore, we kindly ask you do write us by Monday evening. If > we do not hear from you on time, we will count that everything is fine > and that no interventions are needed on your paper. > > IMPORTANT, if some of your author agreements are not signed by hand (a > pan on a paper), CEUR might exclude this paper or even reject the full > proceedings. So, PLEASE send us a really signed author agreement if it > was electronically signed or the signature was copy-pasted as we know > from our previous experience that they are really good at discovering > fake signatures. > > Thanks again! > > Gordana, Guille, and Steven >

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