The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak 4.5 Release Candidate 1

    From: Chris Muller: It’s ready for your final testing and scrutiny! http://ftp.squeak.org/4.5alpha/Squeak4.5-13663.zip Please bang on this!  Test it with your apps.  Test it in Windows, iOS, Linux.  Interpreter and Cog. Unless we hit any show-stoppers, this will be the one we can call “done.” Thanks to this great community of brilliant developers for making 4.5…

  • Squeak needs you!

      It’s time to encourage our best community members to step up and serve.  Put your name in the race and get elected to the Squeak Oversight Board.  Talk to people – you know who they are – that really should run. From Tim: Being on the board is not an onerous job. It does…

  • Spur Memory Manager Object Format Explained

      Clément Béra just posted an excellent article explaining the new Spur Object format.  Definitely worth a read! Eliot Miranda has also mentioned that Spur is coming to life in Newspeak as we speak and then Squeak 5.0. Find out more about the Squeak VM called Cog and the new memory manager called Spur at…

  • Test Tim’s new Scratch alpha on Pi

    More info here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5742 or here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=66308 Nice work Tim!

  • SqueakJS: A Lively Squeak VM

             Smalltalk on Javascript.  Are you ready for this!! From Bert: I’m proud to announce SqueakJS, a new Squeak VM that runs on Javascript http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/ It was inspired by Dan’s JSqueak/Potato VM for Java, and similarly only runs the old Squeak 2.2 mini.image for now. But I developed it inside the Lively Kernel, which…

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