https://github.com/guillep/Scale is quite cool for quick scripts on *nix. Now for embeddable, yes it would help. Bootstrapping will be helpful but the current main issue is the VM interpret loop that is in the current VMs. It is not an intrinsic problem. Telepharo is also a great step to enable that to exist. Phil On Oct 7, 2017 13:05, "Herby Vojčík" <herby@mailbox.sk> wrote: Ben Coman wrote:

Nice article. I like the way you've structured it and pushed the "updated" angle.

I feel a bit too strong a claim is laid on Pharo producing the CogVM. Much of the Cog + Spur + 64bit VM work was originally done for Squeak with Pharo riding the coat-tails of that work. Lately Pharo community has been involved in improving VM with hotspot optimisation with Sista and moving towards making Pharo embeddable.. (@Clement, is "hotspot

Hi, this made me curious. I always had the problem with Amber (and, all the rest of Smalltalks in similar vein) that it is hard to use to one-off scripting, as it presumes existence of the not really small class library (objects, classes, collections, etc.). This disadvantaged it IMO in the field of "can I just embed it here and script it with a few lines?" scenarios. Did you (the Pharo community that is "moving towards making Pharo embeddable") find some way to work this around? cheers -ben

Herby