Yey! Big thank you to the core team and all the community!
Noury On Jul 15 2021, at 11:14 am, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@netc.eu> wrote: > Dear World and dynamic language lovers: > > The time has come for Pharo 9 (https://pharo.org/) ! > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > Here are the key features of Pharo 9: > Full redesign of the Spec UI framework (new logic, application, style, GTK3 > back-end) > New tools: > > new playground, > > new object centric inspector, > > new object centric debugger. > > better and new Refactorings > > class comments are now written in Microdown format (Markdown compatible) > > classes now can be defined using a "fluid" api (Preview) > > > > New completion framework that adapts better to edition contexts and is > customizable > > Fast universal non-blocking FFI which now uses libFFI as backend. > > Pharo now supports Windows, OSX, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, > Arch, Raspbian) and multiple architectures (Intel/ARM 32/64bits). > > Virtual Machine > > Idle VM > > Support for ARM 64bits > > Support for Apple M1 > > More than 3000 tests > > Built for Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04, 20.04, 21.04, 21.10; Debian 9, 10, Testing; > Fedora 32, 32, 34; openSUSE 15.1, 15.2, Tumbleweed; Manjaro; Arch > > > > Uses SDL 2.0 as back-end by default. It supports extended event handling, > including trackpad support. > > General speed up due to compiler optimisations and UI simplification. > > And many, many more tests. > > > > These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as > important. We have closed a massive amount of issues: around 1400 issues and > 2150 pull requests. > A more extended changelog can be found at > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo90ChangeLogs.md. > While the technical improvements are significant, still the most impressive > fact is that the new code that got in the main Pharo 9 image was contributed > by more than 90 people. > Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving a great > community. > We thank all the contributors to this release: > Aaron Bieber, Ackerley Tng, Alban Benmouffek, Ale Cossio, Alexandre Bergel, > Alistair Grant, Allex Oliveira, Angela Chia-Ling, Arturo Zambrano, Asbathou > Biyalou-Sama, Ben Coman, Benoit Verhaegue, Carlo Teixeira, Carlos Lopez, > Carolina Hernandez, Charles A. Monteiro, Christoph Thiede, Christophe > Demarey, Clotilde Toullec, Cyril Ferlicot, Damien Pollet, Daniel Aparicio, > David Bajger, David Sánchez i Gregori, Denis Kudriashov, Ellis Harris, Eric > Brandwein, Eric Gade, Erik Stel, ErikOnBike, Esteban Lorenzano, Esteban > Villalobos, Evelyn Cusi Lopez, Evelyn Cusi Lopez, Ewan Dawson, Francis > Pineda, Francis Pineda, Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Geraldine Galindo, Giovanni > Corriga, Guille Polito, Himanshu jld, Johan Brichau, Jonathan van Alteren, > Jordan Montt, Julien Delplanque, Kamil Kukura, Kasper Østerbye, Kurt Kilpela, > Laurine Dargaud, Marco Rimoldi, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, Martin McClure, > Massimo Nocentini, Max Leske, Maximilian Ignacio Willembrinck Santander, > Milton Mamani Torres, Moussa Saker, Myroslava Romaniuk, Nicolas Anquetil, > Norbert Hartl, Nour Djihan, Oleksandr Zaitsev, Pablo Sánchez Rodríguez, Pablo > Tesone, Pavel Krivanek, Philippe Lesueur, Pierre Misse, Rakshit P., Rob > Sayers, Roland Bernard, Ronie Salgado, Sean DeNigris, Sebastian Jordan > Montaño, Serge Stinckwich, Stephan Eggermont, Steven Costiou, Stéphane > Ducasse, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Thomas Dupriez, Théo Lanord, Théo Rogliano, > Todd Blanchard, Torsten Bergmann, Vincent Blondeau, Wéslleymberg Lisboa. > > > (If you contributed with Pharo 9 development in any way and we missed your > name, please send us an email and we will add you). > Enjoy! > The Pharo Team > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download (https://pharo.org/download) > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation (https://pharo.org/documentation)
