That is great news. Congratulations! Koen
> On 26 Apr 2024, at 12:19, Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-users > <pharo-us...@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers: > > We have released Pharo <https://pharo.org/> version 12! > > What is Pharo? > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > > > Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no > interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful and elegant language with a > full syntax fitting in one postcard! Pharo is objects and messages all the > way down. > Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of your > development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in production environments, > you will never be stuck in compiling and deploying steps again! > Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a debugger unlike > anything you've seen before. It allows you to step through code, restart the > execution of methods, create methods on the fly, and much more! > Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with more than 100 > contributors for the last revision of the platform and hundreds of people > constantly contributing with frameworks and libraries. > Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT > <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> License and available on GitHub > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo> > ... more on the Pharo Features page <http://www.pharo.org/features>. > > In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of > improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number of > usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and improvements > is available in our Changelog > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo120ChangeLogs.md> > Some highlights of this amazing version: > > Highlights > > New breakpoint system > > The debug point system is a breakpoint model that supersedes the previous > implementation of breakpoints and watchpoints. They are configurable, > composable, and extensible. The traditional breakpoints remain available, > including conditional breakpoints, one-time breakpoints, and object-centric > breakpoints. Additionally, there are new types of breakpoints, such as > chained-breakpoints, which condition the activation of certain breakpoints on > the triggering of others (e.g., breakpoint B only activates if breakpoint A > is hit first). Debug points also feature a dedicated browser and integration > options. > > > > Tools > > Scalable fluid class syntax is now the default one > Preparing the introduction of the Bloc graphic system by migrating more tools > to Spec2 widgets > Spec2 UI framework enhancements to support GTK 4 > Leaner version of the Metacello package manager > More robust and strict mode for FFI > System > > New architecture for refactorings and domain specific transformations > Code loading speed improvement > Fast browsing via fully optimized package tags > Optmized memory usage via optimized method protocols > Compiler simplifications and improvements > Virtual machine > > Massive image support with permanent space > String/ByteArray comparison speed up > Development Effort > > This new version is the result of 1895 Pull Requests integrated just in the > Pharo repository. We have closed 865 issues and received contributions from > more than 70 different contributors. We have also a lot of work in the > separate projects that are included in each Pharo release: > > http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools> > http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser > <https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser> > http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec <https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec> > http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg <https://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg> > http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3 > <https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3> > http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown > <https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown> > http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments > <https://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments> > http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm> > Contributors > > We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but > most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our > great community (yourself). A large community of people from all around the > world contributed to Pharo 12.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, > participating in discussion threads, providing feedback, and a lot of helpful > tasks in all our community channels. Thank you all for your contributions. > > The Pharo Team > > Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features > > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download <https://pharo.org/download> > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation <https://pharo.org/documentation> > >
