Dan Ingalls pointed out that Strongtalk is now open source. The community now has an important opportunity and decision to make. Should we work with Strongtalk to build a Strongtalk VM for Squeak. There are a number of potential advantages to this path (see www.strongtalk.org) . There could also be risks. As our community changes it is important that issues like these be addressed publically, so that a broader range of the community can participate. Please join the discussion and move this issue forward while the opportunity still exists.
Dan followed up on his original post with a Community Challenge:
Tell ya what…
Here’s $5000 that says “some smart guy” will do it before the end of 2006.
<lays money on table with a bottle of champagne on top>
😉
UPDate: David Griswold and Dan Ingalls call for VM Summit on: http://groups.google.com/group/strongtalk-general
see: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-October/109526.html for details
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