Congratulations everyone on Pharo v9. I love working in this immersive environment.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 5:15 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> > -- Russ Whaley whaley.r...@gmail.com
