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Awesome idea but it seems to have died a decade ago.
by ModernMech 5y ago
Awesome idea but it seems to have died a decade ago.
- gjvc 5y agoonly dead when unavailable
- urthor 5y agoSuggest Pharo, that's the Smalltalk continuation effort that is the most successful. Well updated with traits and other modern paraphernalia.
- Qem 5y agoThere was a lot of improvements in the CogVM in the last years. The team Eliot Miranda leads is awesome. I hope they finish the speculative inline JIT VM soon.
- urthor 5y agoMiranda's work on it is truly one of the most herculean efforts I've encountered.
- scroot 5y agoSqueak is still pretty good! The new 6.0 release is forthcoming.
- hedgewitch 5y ago...except the non-deterministic parallelism that this offers. That's the thing. Smalltalk is historically extremely bad at utilizing multiple cores (not because it can't be done, but because no one has - multiple people have thought that an actor-oriented VM might be a good fit). This utilized multiple cores by embracing non-determinism. No other Smalltalk VM offers that.
- morphle 5y agoSqueak is the right one, made by the experts. Pharo breaks stuff all the time