The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • The NewCompiler project

    The NewCompiler project aims at developing a new compiler to take the place of the one currently in use in the Squeak image. This will bring many advantages: a better integration with the Refactoring Browser subsystem; a cleaner internal structure with better maintainability, and “real” closures that will make the #fixTemps workaround unnecessary.

  • More info on Exupery

    Looks like Exupery is in the spotlight in these days! Many messages ha appeared on the Squeak-dev mailing list asking questions and details about this project. Bryce Kampjes and others provided answers to these questions here, here, and here. Also, don’t forget to read to our little Exupery FAQ!

  • Squeak startup process, explained

    In replying to a question on the Beginners mailing list, Yoshiki Ohshima explained the startup process of a Squeak image, from the moment the VM is invoked by the operating system, to the moment the user can start interacting with the Squeak system.

  • Exupery FAQ 1.0

    Giovanni Giorgi has tried Exupery, the Squeak byte compiler written by Bryce Kampjes. Exupery is still in beta but is usable for experimenting. The Weekly Squeak is happy to publish a prime-time FAQ on it. Introduction First of all, the master reference for exupery is the omnipresent wiki. I have done a small interview to…

  • Common Smalltalk VM Summit

    David Griswold, one of main developers of the Strongtalk system, writes: Hi everybody, Dan Ingalls and I have been talking, trying to figure out what to do about the major opportunity offered by the recent release of the Strongtalk virtual machine as open source. Rather than keep this discussion to ourselves, our thinking was that…

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