I know you are all working hard to bring 292 to a release so I thought I would take a moment to thank you all for your work and to tell you how much that work helped with our Smalltalk porting.
We have about 500K lines of Smalltalk code which we want to run on the JVM. The approach we picked was to translate the Smalltalk byte codes to jvm byte codes. We (oscar and myself) had looked at this prior to 292 but it seemed like a lot of work. But after attending the last dynamic languages conference we decided to give it a shot with invoke dynamic. Wow, the implementation went extremely well. We were able to implement all of the Smalltalk constructs with what is there today. We are loading an image ( ST's code base), creating java classes on demand, and using invoke dynamic to execute Smalltalk code on the jvm. All this with a part time effort. The ease of putting a true dynamic language on the jvm was a wonder in itself. All this with about 3K lines of java code. Thanks to everyone for making this a easy trip. Some work which saved us a lot of time: John's anno Class loader, Rémi's work on ASM4 and Stephen's Mac ports. And all of the friendly advice on this list. We have lots of code to pour in and test but the uncertainty is gone. Thanks again Mark and Oscar
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