On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:52 AM, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, but imagine how complex that bootstrap becomes when you want to add to your classes:

- traits
- layouts
- slots
...

And expressing all that in C also :)

Surely the bootstrap doesn't have to be expressed in C?!?!  It can be expressed in Smalltalk and still be a bootstrap right?


El Fri Feb 06 2015 at 10:47:19 AM, Markus Fritsche <mfritsche@reauktion.de> escribi��:

On 06.02.2015 09:33, stepharo wrote:
In the coming months we will work on putting in place our bootstrapping kernel.
There are no Smalltalk able to do that right now.

GNU Smalltalk does just that, if it doesn't find an image, it will be bootstrapped by using the shipped .st fileouts.

A bit of cheating is involved, a compiler & initialization is implemented on the VM side.

So I would say "there are no Smalltalk that are able to do that right now the way we want to do it" :-P

(Pissing at the door contest, to refer to another unquoted metaphor :-D)