Congratulations. I am very impressed, especially by improvements coming with a healthy reduction in size. The Pharo team continue to amaze me.
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 22:41, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@netc.eu> wrote: > Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: > > We have released Pharo version 10 <https://pharo.org/> ! > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > > Pharo 10 was a short iteration where we focused mainly on stability and > enhancement of the environment : > > > - Massive system cleanup > - > - gained speed > - removed dead code > - removed old/deprecated frameworks (Glamour, GTTools, Spec1) > - All Remaining tools written using the deprecated frameworks have > been rewritten: Dependency Analyser, Critique Browser, and many other small > utilities. > - Modularisation has made a leap, creating correct baselines (project > descriptions) for many internal systems, making possible the work and > deployment of minimal images. > - Removing support for the old Bytecode sets and embedded blocks > simplified the compiler and language core. > - As a result, our image size has been reduced by 10% (from 66MB to > 58MB) > - The VM has also improved in several areas: better async I/O support, > socket handling, FFI ABI, > > Even being a short iteration, we have closed a massive amount of issues: > around 600 issues and 700 pull requests. A more extended changelog can be > found at > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo100ChangeLogs.md > . > > While the technical improvements are significant, still the most > impressive fact is that the new code that got in the main Pharo 10 image > was contributed by more than 80 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, Alejandra Cossio, Aless > Hosry, Alexandre Bergel, Aliaksei Syrel, Alistair Grant, Arturo Zambrano, > Asbathou Biyalou-Sama, Axel Marlard, Bastien Degardins, Ben Coman, Bernardo > Contreras, Bernhard Pieber, Carlo Teixeira, Carlos Lopez, Carolina > Hernandez, Christophe Demarey, Clotilde Toullec, Connor Skennerton, Cyril > Ferlicot, Dave Mason, David Wickes, Denis Kudriashov, Eric Gade, Erik Stel, > Esteban Lorenzano, Evelyn Cusi Lopez, Ezequiel R. Aguerre, Gabriel Omar > Cotelli, Geraldine Galindo, Giovanni Corriga, Guille Polito, Himanshu, Jan > Bliznicenko, Jaromir Matas, Kasper Østerbye, Kausthub Thekke Madathil, > Konrad Hinsen, Kurt Kilpela, Luz Paz, Marco Rimoldi, Marcus Denker, Martín > Dias, Massimo Nocentini, Max Leske, Maximilian-ignacio Willembrinck > Santander, Miguel Campero, Milton Mamani Torres, Nahuel Palumbo, Norbert > Hartl, Norm Green, Nour Djihan, Noury Bouraqadi, Oleksandr Zaitsev, Pablo > Sánchez Rodríguez, Pablo Tesone, Pavel Krivanek, Pierre Misse-Chanabier, > Quentin Ducasse, Raffaello Giulietti, Rakshit, Renaud de Villemeur, Rob > Sayers, Roland Bernard, Ronie Salgado, Santiago Bragagnolo, Sean DeNigris, > Sebastian Jordan Montt, Soufyane Labsari, Stephan Eggermont, Steven > Costiou, Stéphane Ducasse, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Theo Rogliano, Thomas > Dupriez, Théo Lanord, Torsten Bergmann, Vincent Blondeau. > > > (If you contributed to Pharo 10 development in any way and we missed your > name, please send us an email and we will add you). > > Enjoy! > > The Pharo Team > > Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features > > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download <https://pharo.org/download> > > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation > <https://pharo.org/documentation> >
