On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM, horrido <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com> wrote:

Fellow Pharoers: What is the most exciting development in 2017 to look
forward to? I'm asking for things to put into the end-of-year post in my
"Make Smalltalk Great Again!" campaign. Thanks.

Worthwhile 2016 news...

- VM sources moved to git.�� Broadening of VM brand from historical SqueakVM to opensmalltalk-vm serving Squeak, Pharo, Cuis, Newspeak. ��

Pharo 6 release due April 2017.

- 64-bit!!!��

- Sista - adaptive method��inlining at the bytecode level��

�� https://clementbera.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/the-sista-chronicles-i-an-introduction-to-adaptive-recompilation/

�� http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/on-line-papers-and-presentations/

Pharo 7

- Iceberg UI interface to git��

�� http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Tuesday/1100-1130-Iceberg��

- Pharo workflow moving to git.

�� http://forum.world.st/Notes-about-Pharo-6-release-and-new-process-for-Pharo-7-td4920100.html��

cheers -ben