I suppose this is more of a pie in the sky type question, but with the
changes coming to the Java virtual machine in version 7, where the jvm
itself provides a more message oriented opcode, has any consideration
gone into perhaps porting squeak to run on the jvm?
I'm aware of talks2 but it seems
Hi Michael,
There are some really talented people doing some of this now. See:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-September/108634
.html
But what is even more exciting to me is the Strongtalk VM. The guys that
wrote the Java VM first wrote Strongtalk. Sun shelved
Sweet. I've heard of Strongtalk, don't know much about it, but great.
But in my humble opinion, if running on the jvm will allow people to
use the java libs and allow plugins written in java(thus lowering
the barrier of entry for people like me, since we'd no longer have to
rebuild the whole
