Great work!
> On 26 Apr 2024, at 12:19, Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-dev > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: > We have released Pharo version 12! > What is Pharo? > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > • Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no > interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a > full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the > way down. > • Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your > development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, > you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! > • Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger > unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, > restart the execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! > • Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more > than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of > people constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. > • Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT License and > available on GitHub > ... more on the Pharo Features page. > In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of > improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of > usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and improvements > is available in our Changelog > Some highlights of this amazing version: > Highlights New breakpoint system > The debug point system is a breakpoint model that supersedes the previous > implementation of breakpoints and watchpoints. They are configurable, > composable, and extensible. The traditional breakpoints remain available, > including conditional breakpoints, one-time breakpoints, and object-centric > breakpoints. Additionally, there are new types of breakpoints, such as > chained-breakpoints, which condition the activation of certain breakpoints on > the triggering of others (e.g., breakpoint B only activates if breakpoint A > is hit first). Debug points also feature a dedicated browser and integration > options. > Tools > • Scalable fluid class syntax is now the default one > • Preparing the introduction of the Bloc graphic system by migrating more > tools to Spec2 widgets > • Spec2 UI framework enhancements to support GTK 4 > • Leaner version of the Metacello package manager > • More robust and strict mode for FFI > System > • New architecture for refactorings and domain specific transformations > • Code loading speed improvement > • Fast browsing via fully optimized package tags > • Optmized memory usage via optimized method protocols > • Compiler simplifications and improvements > Virtual machine > • Massive image support with permanent space > • String/ByteArray comparison speed up > Development Effort > This new version is the result of 1895 Pull Requests integrated just in the > Pharo repository. We have closed 865 issues and received contributions from > more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the > separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: > • http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools > • http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser > • http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec > • http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg > • http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 > • http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown > • http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments > • http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > Contributors > We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but > most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our > great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the > world contributed to Pharo 12.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, > participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful > tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your contributions. > The Pharo Team > Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation > >
