Pharo3 at Fosdem
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Pharo3 is an open-source programming environment and language based on Smalltalk. Some key updates in Pharo3 include a new inspector, vector graphics library, Opal compiler, class builder, and debugger. Pharo has an active community with over 80 projects on its continuous integration server and is supported by a consortium and association.
Pharo3 at Fosdem
- 2. What is it? Language + Environment Simple Language (Smalltalk) Object-Oriented, Dynamic, Reflective Explore + Change running systems ! The Ultimate Programming Environment!
- 3. Pharo MIT license Mac, Linux, Windows, (Android, iOS) Great community Improving steadily Many excellent libraries
- 4. Started 2008 Pharo 1.0 released October 2009 2.0 is the current stable (5th release) Released March 2013 Plan: 1 Release per Year
- 5. Pharo3: Release March 14 Started March 2013 2021 Issue tracker entries with Pharo3 tag closed 733 Updates 40 issue as TODO for release
- 7. Infrastructure: CI https://ci.inria.fr is stable and used a lot ! Every fix is validated automatically before human review Every update triggers test run on 3 Architectures over 80 projects in pharo-contribution
- 9. Infrastructure: Misc http://files.pharo.org ! http://get.pharo.org ! SmalltalkHub: http://smalltalkhub.com 1025 users, 1200 repos, 15mill hits/day
- 10. Small Stuff Lots of Cleanups Lots of tuning (perfomance, memory) Lots of small improvements
- 11. Lots of larger things Closure class now standard in Pharo3 Terminal output for stderr Cleanup Source file related code AST Interpreter AST based Navigation in Browser Komitter Launcher Font Speedup ….
- 12. New Inspector Unify Inspector and Explorer Make specialised inspectors visible
- 13. Athens: Vector Graphics New API for Vector Graphics Independent of Backend For now: Cairo Balloon3D for Debugging Future: OpenGL
- 14. Athens: Demo
- 15. Opal Compiler Uses RB AST ! IRBuilder: Bytecode backend with high-level builder Much easier to change Basis for Reflectivity (see Pharo4 talk)
- 16. New ClassBuilder Replaces the old ClassBuilder ! Easier to understand and more flexible ! Basis for Slots (see talk about Pharo4)
- 17. New Debugger Model now separate from View ! Model is scriptable ! Debugger is extensible with Commands
- 18. Command Line denker$ ./pharo Pharo.image --list! Currently installed Command Line Handlers:! Fuel Loads fuel files! config Install Configurations! save Rename the image and changes file! update Load updates! printVersion Print image version! st Loads and executes .st source files! test A command line test runner! clean Run image cleanup! eval Directly evaluates one line scripts! !
- 19. Pharo Consortium 13 Members 6 Academic Partners 3 Sponsors Started 2013 http://consortium.pharo.org
- 21. Pharo Association For individuals around 60 Members Consortium and Association will merge Started 2013 http://association.pharo.org
- 22. Pharo Books
- 23. Open Pharo SprintsMay 2008 Bern July 2009 Bern October 2009 Lille November 2009 Buenos Ares March 2010 Bern May 2010 Buenos Ares June 2010 Bern June 2010 Bruxelles July 2010 London September 2010 Barcelona September 2010 Lille January 2011 Lille July 2011 Lille October 2011 Bruxelles February 2012 Bern April 2012 Lille September 2012 Ghent October 2013 Lille November 2013 Buenos Aires