Doru, This is great news! Thanks for sharing. Cheers Nacho *Lic. Ignacio Sniechowski, MBA* *Prosavic SRL* ☎* (5411) 4542-6712* 📱* (54911) 6749-4721*
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are happy to announce that based on the work of Glenn, Alex extended > Bloc (Sparta) to work directly in the Morphic world using Cairo as a > backend. > > Cairo is less powerful than Moz2D (see the screenshot below for an > example), but the implementation addresses a concern that the community > raised regarding a perceived increased liability due to the dependency to > Moz2D. Essentially this means that Bloc can be treated as another graphical > library that can coexist with Morphic without requiring any external VM > plugin. > > > I would also like to point out that adding a new backend and host was > possible because of the many iterations (including throwing away whole > implementations) that Alex and Glenn went through. I think they did an > amazing job. > > You can find a bit more details about Bloc here: > http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/bloc-flexible-backends-hosts/ > > Another issue raised regarding Bloc was that of the engineering effort > required to make it a reality. That is why I would also like to announce > that Alex joined feenk.com where he is primarily working on the graphical > stack for Pharo. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "To lead is not to demand things, it is to make them happen." > > > > >
