Hi Wouter, This is a great thing! I wish you a lot of luck with it.
I'm the creator of Redline Smalltalk and I'm excited there is another Smalltalk on the JVM. Maybe we can exchange advice / solutions etc BTW - Redline supports all the same things as you but we differ in that our Classloader will automatically load modified classes, and Redline interfaces natively at the bytecode level with other classes (developers in Java or other). Good Luck, - James http://redline.st. On Saturday, 21 December 2013 06:37:13 UTC+11, Wouter Gazendam wrote: > > We're happy to announce Gravel Smalltalk, a modern Smalltalk > implementation for the JVM. > > Gravel.st aim to be a fully ANSI compliant Smalltalk implementation with > modern language enhancements as optional typing, namespaces and traits. > > Gravel Smalltalk is developed in Smalltalk itself, in the spirit of > Squeak's Slang. It's core functionality is then transformed to java source > code which is then used to compile smalltalk code and bootstrap the system. > > *Features: > - Traits > - Optional typing > - Patching compiler > - Full block closures > - Resumable exceptions > - Namespaces > - Mirror based reflection facilities > > We aim to provide an interactive development environment in the Smalltalk > philosophy as well as a stable and fast runtime platform. To facilitate > interactive development we've developed the so-called patching compiler > which can add or change running class and method definitions in the JVM. > > Gravel Smalltalk uses the jsr-292 (aka invokedynamic) language and VM > enhancements in the JVM. So you need Oracle Java 7 or OpenJDK Java 7 or up. > > *Current status: > Gravel Smalltalk is very alpha. We have enough code in the base library to > boot the Gravel IDE and to run SUnit. Work is currently being done on the > online debugger, IDE and base library. The typed Smalltalk to Java > translation is not yet ported from VisualWorks Smalltalk since we have a > dependency on our Pegon Type System (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pegon > ). > > *License: > Gravel Smalltalk is licensed under the very liberal Apache-2.0 License, > except for parts of the Gravel IDE where we redistribute code from > semantic-ui and codemirror.net. These are licensed under the compatible > MIT License and CodeMirror licence. We also use code in the base library > from Squeak, this is also licensed under the Apache-2.0 License or MIT > License. > > For more information see https://github.com/gravel-st/gravel or ask > around at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gravel-st. > > > Happy Smalltalk, > > Wouter Gazendam > > > -- > Wouter Gazendam > AG5 B.V. > Willem Fenengastraat 4-C > 1096 BN Amsterdam > http://www.ag5.nl > Tel: 020-4630942 > Fax: 020-4630946 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
