> On 15 Jul 2021, at 16:44, Russ Whaley <whaley.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Congratulations everyone on Pharo v9. I love working in this immersive
> environment.
Well said, congratulations to all contributors.
> 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 !
>
> 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
>
> Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation
>
>
> --
> Russ Whaley
> whaley.r...@gmail.com
