A bridge is already possible with dotNet without the sources on windows
using COM: one can load the clr as a COM object and call COM methods
(googling quite a bit should give examples in c++ IIRC, and it works).
The pain could be marshalling arguments/returns and may be also with the
threading model of pharo (may be calling from another thread here?).
I think it is the same with the jvm (examples of loading the jvm as a
com object are given in the openoffice or staroffice sdk I think, but
don't remember exactly - we did it with a collegue quite some time ago).
Smalltalk main feature is simplicity and expressiveness and it's great,
but smalltalk world suffers from beeing too apart from others and too
closed.
This could be a great opening door, interoperability and openness is
needed (IMHO).
Le 13/11/2014 15:52, [email protected] a écrit :
Time for a bridge... But frankly .NET is a monster in termes of features
(WPF comes to mind).
I've seen quite some projects die under the technical weight and
delivering close to nil in terms of added value.
Phil
