On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Jimmie Houchin <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, we need excellent FFI. I would love to see in Pharo FFI as easy as > Julia [1] or LuaJIT [2]. I am not qualified to do deliver such. And I do not > know how possible, how much effort or likely it is. > > Sometimes connecting to an external library is a requirement. It would be > nice to be able to easily do so. I had problems with NB and it never > happened. > > But, on the other hand. I am a big believer and advocate of keeping as much > as possible in Pharo. Even if there are libraries available via FFI. Now I > know being practical and expedient sometimes using the libraries is > necessary at least initially. > > I would love as much as possible in Pharo, in our language. This makes it > available for us to improve, fix, and learn. It reduces the barrier for > entry for those who only know Pharo. We can't do any of those things if it > is in a foreign language in a foreign library. Reinventing the wheel so to > speak is not always evil. But we do have to know our resources, time, > people, community, skills. And as a Smalltalk or Smalltalk inspired tool. We > need to have a long view of the world. We already have a longer history than > most languages. We should likewise look forward to an even longer future. > Always keep the big picture in front of us to inspire through the tedious > minutiae that we may currently have to deal with. > > And by the way. I would love having Random Forests and other scientific, > statistic tools in Pharo. I need to look at the SciSmalltalk stuff.
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