Congratulations!
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vote up!
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4j1clo/pharo_50_the_immersive_pure_object_oriented/
>
> YC:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11684285
>
>
> On 12 May 2016, at 17:49, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please spread widely, and sorry for multiple posts.
> (this post can be see here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released)
>
> Dear World,
>
> The time has come for Pharo 5.0!
>
> <pharo50-screenshot.png>
>
> This is our most significant release yet. Here are some highlights:
>
> - The PharoVM is now based on Spur, the new memory management, and it brings
> with it a 35% speedup!
> - A new unified foreign function interface (UFFI) replaced NativeBoost to
> provide a strong Spur-compatible framework for interfacing with the outside
> world.
> - The Glamorous Toolkit now includes the GTDebugger to offer a moldable
> infrastructure that allows the developer to customize the debugger deeply.
> - The underlying Reflectivity mechanism has reached maturity with multiple
> pieces coming together to empower developers to instrument their own
> systems. For example, we now have breakpoints implemented as just a simple
> extension of this mechanism.
> - QualityAssistant is now part of the image to provide live feedback during
> development.
>
> These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as
> important. We have closed 2446 issues in Pharo 5. Take a moment to go
> through a more detailed recount of the progress:
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo50ChangeLogs.md.
>
> While the technical improvements are significant, just think of getting 30%
> faster out-of-the-box, still the most impressive fact is that the new code
> that got in the main Pharo 5.0 image was contributed by 100 people. Together
> we have touched 43% of the classes, and 20% of the methods. The following
> visualization rendered with Roassal in Pharo 5.0 is dedicated to this
> effort. The picture shows the touched classes and packages in gray, the
> authors and the links to the changed classes in red, and, using an
> automatically generated visual id, you can spot authors that have worked on
> similar projects.
>
>
> <pharo50-contributors.png>
>
> Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving energetic
> people. We thank all the contributors of this release:
>
> Abdelghani Alidra, Clara Allende, David Allouche, Nicolas Anquetil,
> Thibault Arloing, Jean Baptiste Arnaud, Mangesh Bendre, Clement Bera,
> Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Usman Bhatti, Vincent Blondeau,
> Johan Brichau, Camillo Bruni, Miguel Campusano, Damien Cassou, Nicolas
> Cellier, Danny Chan, Andrei Chis, Christopher Coat, Ben Coman, Bernardo
> Contreras, Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Paul De Bruicker,
> Sean De Nigris, Christophe Demarey, Simon Denier, Marcus Denker, Martin
> Dias, John Dougan, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Johan Fabry,
> Sergio Fedi, Cyril Ferlicot, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Joshua Gargus,
> Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Kris Gybels, Norbert Hartl, Thomas
> Heniart, Dale Henrichs, Nicolai Hess, Alejandro Infante, Henrik
> Johansen, Goran Krampe, Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Denis Kudriashov,
> Matthieu Lacaton, Laurent Laffont, Kevin Lanvin, Jannik Laval, Alexander
> Lazarević, Skip Lentz, Max Leske, Dave Lewis, Esteban Lorenzano, Sheridan
> Mahoney, Mariano Martinez Peck, Max Mattone, John McIntosh, Rene Meusel,
> Eliot Miranda, Henrik Nergaard, Marion Noirbent, Merwan Ouddane, Nick
> Papoulias, Nicolas Passerini, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien
> Pollet, Baptiste Quide, Andreas Raab (RIP), Alain Rastoul, Stefan
> Reichhart, Lukas Renggli, Mark Rizun, Michael Rueger, Valentin
> Ryckewaert, Ronie Salgado, Udo Schneider, Boris Spasojevic, Igor
> Stasenko, Roger Stebler, Serge Stinckwich, Aliaksei Syrel, Camille
> Teruel, Pablo Tesone, Yuriy Tymchuk, Peter Uhnak, Masashi Umezawa, Dion
> Stewart, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Jan Van De Sandt, Benjamin Van Ryseghem,
> Toon Verwaest, Franck Warlouzet.
>
> (If you contributed with Pharo 5.0 development in any way and we missed your
> name, please send us a mail and we will add you).
>
> Enjoy!
> The Pharo Team
>
>
>
