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"GNU Smalltalk 3.1 has been released at [...] Compared to the 3.0.x branch, focus on porting libraries from other Smalltalks, adding bindings to other external libraries, and facilitating the creation of C/Smalltalk interfaces..."
One Smalltalk aspect still astonishing me after years of practicing is the joy it brings when it is time to track bugs.
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My experience in developing both a C++ and Smalltalk version of Dr. Geo showed me you got a huge boost in productivity, which of course brings directly happiness while writing code and tracking bugs.
"...Main features of the new release include downloading of remote packages (for projects hosted on smalltalk.gnu.org), a new browser based on GTK+, a callgraph profiler and incremental garbage collection. This version can also run the Iliad web framework..."
The Pharo developers have released version 1.0 of their implementation of the Smalltalk language and environment - a fork of the Squeak open source Smalltalk
"In this article, I explain how Smalltalk is since 30 years a practical social implementation of the freedom #3 and #4 of the Free Software philosophy: freedom to study, to modify and to redistribute a software..."