fniephaus

Have you had a look at GraalVM? Their native images [1] allow compilation of JVM-based languages into binaries with fast startup behavior and low memory footprint.

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilatio...

Sulong is GraalVM's LLVM bitcode interpreter, so it's mentioned under LLVM in the release notes. Its code base has been merged into GraalVM's main repository at https://github.com/oracle/graal.

yes, he got married a while ago.

Thanks! And yes, we are still working on GraalSqueak. Adding support for Smalltalk Context objects is one of the biggest challenges as they allow sender modifications. This needs to be as fast as possible because it is heavily used for implementing exception handling in Smalltalk. More papers to follow soon.

In the meantime, check out some recent screenshots of it in action: https://twitter.com/fniephaus/status/1015194081297920000

Here's Sean Heber's response to this: https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996794900208287744

Lighthouse Audit - Opens External Anchors Using rel="noopener": https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/no...

Are there any good comparable alternatives?

- - The PharoVM is now part of OpenSmalltalk initiative

- What's the OpenSmalltalk initiative?

Pharo used a fork of the CogVM [1] for some time which has been moved to GitHub and is now called OpenSmalltalkVM [2]. For Pharo 6.0, the team has merged their changes back into the OSVM repository.

[1] http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/about-cog/

[2] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm

Reminds me of "Worse Is Better" by Richard P. Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper's_self-referential_form...

And there's http://programming-journal.org/feed.xml

Here are two other approaches:

https://lively-kernel.org/lively4/lively4-core/start.html

https://squeak.js.org/demo/simple.html#fullscreen

Recent versions of the OpenSmalltalk VM [1] now support macOS Sierra. The latest version can be found at [2].

[1] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm

[2] https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#file...

TravisCI supports Squeak/Smalltalk builds: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/smalltalk

Of course you can also use virtualenv, but if Apple kept software that ships with OS X up-to-date I wouldn't have to deal with this at all.

Same problem is valid for Python. The subprocess module on El Capitan has a bug that has caused me a lot of trouble recently: http://bugs.python.org/issue26083#msg258011

You'll need to put an updated subprocess.py in your Python path, editing the one provided by OS X is prevented by the System Integrity Protection... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Looks like this site is down: http://cube.crider.co.uk/

:(

But it also contains .terminal and .console class definitions which suggests that there is an interactive shell