Very good work. Thanks for that!
Norbert
> Am 08.05.2017 um 23:00 schrieb Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com>:
>
> 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.
>
> <bloc-two-backends-morphic-host-figures.png>
>
> 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/
> <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 <http://feenk.com/> where he is primarily working on
> the graphical stack for Pharo.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
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