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YC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11684285 > On 12 May 2016, at 17:49, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Please spread widely, and sorry for multiple posts. > (this post can be see here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released > <http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released>) > > Dear World, > > The time has come for Pharo 5.0! > > <pharo50-screenshot.png> > > This is our most significant release yet. Here are some highlights: > > - The PharoVM is now based on Spur, the new memory management, and it brings > with it a 35% speedup! > - A new unified foreign function interface (UFFI) replaced NativeBoost to > provide a strong Spur-compatible framework for interfacing with the outside > world. > - The Glamorous Toolkit now includes the GTDebugger to offer a moldable > infrastructure that allows the developer to customize the debugger deeply. > - The underlying Reflectivity mechanism has reached maturity with multiple > pieces coming together to empower developers to instrument their own systems. > For example, we now have breakpoints implemented as just a simple extension > of this mechanism. > - QualityAssistant is now part of the image to provide live feedback during > development. > > These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as > important. We have closed 2446 issues in Pharo 5. Take a moment to go through > a more detailed recount of the progress: > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo50ChangeLogs.md > > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo50ChangeLogs.md>. > > While the technical improvements are significant, just think of getting 30% > faster out-of-the-box, still the most impressive fact is that the new code > that got in the main Pharo 5.0 image was contributed by 100 people. Together > we have touched 43% of the classes, and 20% of the methods. The following > visualization rendered with Roassal in Pharo 5.0 is dedicated to this effort. > The picture shows the touched classes and packages in gray, the authors and > the links to the changed classes in red, and, using an automatically > generated visual id, you can spot authors that have worked on similar > projects. > > > <pharo50-contributors.png> > > Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving energetic > people. We thank all the contributors of this release: > > Abdelghani Alidra, Clara Allende, David Allouche, Nicolas Anquetil, > Thibault Arloing, Jean Baptiste Arnaud, Mangesh Bendre, Clement Bera, > Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Usman Bhatti, Vincent Blondeau, Johan > Brichau, Camillo Bruni, Miguel Campusano, Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, > Danny Chan, Andrei Chis, Christopher Coat, Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, > Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Paul De Bruicker, Sean De > Nigris, Christophe Demarey, Simon Denier, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, > John Dougan, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Johan Fabry, Sergio > Fedi, Cyril Ferlicot, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Joshua Gargus, Tudor > Girba, Thierry Goubier, Kris Gybels, Norbert Hartl, Thomas Heniart, Dale > Henrichs, Nicolai Hess, Alejandro Infante, Henrik Johansen, Goran Krampe, > Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Denis Kudriashov, Matthieu Lacaton, Laurent > Laffont, Kevin Lanvin, Jannik Laval, Alexander Lazarević, Skip Lentz, Max > Leske, Dave Lewis, Esteban Lorenzano, Sheridan Mahoney, Mariano Martinez > Peck, Max Mattone, John McIntosh, Rene Meusel, Eliot Miranda, Henrik > Nergaard, Marion Noirbent, Merwan Ouddane, Nick Papoulias, Nicolas > Passerini, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Baptiste > Quide, Andreas Raab (RIP), Alain Rastoul, Stefan Reichhart, Lukas > Renggli, Mark Rizun, Michael Rueger, Valentin Ryckewaert, Ronie Salgado, > Udo Schneider, Boris Spasojevic, Igor Stasenko, Roger Stebler, Serge > Stinckwich, Aliaksei Syrel, Camille Teruel, Pablo Tesone, Yuriy Tymchuk, > Peter Uhnak, Masashi Umezawa, Dion Stewart, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Jan Van > De Sandt, Benjamin Van Ryseghem, Toon Verwaest, Franck Warlouzet. > > (If you contributed with Pharo 5.0 development in any way and we missed your > name, please send us a mail and we will add you). > > Enjoy! > The Pharo Team > >
