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Name: Help-Squeak-Project-mt.110
Author: mt
Time: 27 July 2026, 2:49:03.600457 pm
UUID: 0bbd3f48-9c31-074b-91e7-af1764cce938
Ancestors: Help-Squeak-Project-ct.109

In Squeak Help, update commentary on Squeak's multi-platform support

=============== Diff against Help-Squeak-Project-ct.109 ===============

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  ----- Method: SqueakHelp class>>introduction (in category 'pages') -----
  introduction
  	"This method was automatically generated. Edit it using:"
  	"SqueakHelp edit: #introduction"
  	<generated>
  	^(HelpTopic
  		title: 'Welcome'
  		contents: 
  'Welcome to Squeak
  
  Visit https://www.squeak.org for the latest information.
  
  Squeak is a modern, open-source Smalltalk programming system with fast execution environments for all major platforms. It features the Morphic framework, which promotes low-effort graphical, interactive application development and maintenance. Many projects have been successfully created with Squeak. They cover a wide range of domains such as education, multimedia, gaming, research, and commerce. Squeak is fast, flexible, and free.
  
  It''s Smalltalk!!!!
  Everything is an object. Objects collaborate by sending messages to achieve the desired application behavior. The Smalltalk programming language has a concise syntax and simple execution semantics. The Smalltalk system is implemented in itself: Compiler, debugger, programming tools, and so on are all Smalltalk code the user can read and modify. Novice programmers can get started easily and experts can engineer elegant solutions at large.
  
  Morphic UI Framework
  All graphical objects are tangible and interactively changeable. This promotes short feedback loops and low-effort application development. Morphic thus leverages the live programming experience of traditional Smalltalk environments from a mainly text-focused domain to a graphical one.
  
  Powerful Tooling
  The dynamic Squeak environment provides a variety of tools for browsing, writing, executing, and versioning Smalltalk code. Multiple debugging sessions can be served concurrently. Thanks to Morphic, tool customization can be achieved with reasonable effort.
  
  Fast Virtual Machine
  The standard VM for Squeak, Cog Spur, has the most advanced object representation yet devised for Smalltalk. Spur has direct pointers, a compact object header, and efficiently implements become (Smalltalk''s object mutation primitive) via lazy forwarding. Spur provides pinning, and a segmented heap, releasing memory back to the OS after global garbage collection. Cog Spur''s JIT combines context-to-stack mapping, aggressive in-line message caching, a register-based calling convention, and Spur''s object representation to provide the fastest production Smalltalk VM.  Cog Spur is developed in Smalltalk, in a uniquely productive VM development environment. There are other important Squeak VMs. Examples include SqueakJS, which runs in web browsers, and research VMs such as TruffleSqueak (bas
 ed on GraalVM and a method JIT using partial evaluation) and RSqueak/VM (based on PyPy''s meta-tracing JIT).
  
  Web Development
  With frameworks like Seaside and AIDA, Squeak can be a web server. It provides a layered set of abstractions over HTTP and HTML that let you build highly interactive web applications quickly, reusably, and maintainably.
  
  Multi-Platform Support
+ Squeak supports x86-based and ARM-based Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. It is preinstalled on C.H.I.P., Raspberry Pi, and OLPC XO. If needed, Squeak still offers also 32-bit support for Windows and Linux platforms.!!
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- Squeak supports Windows, Linux (X86, X64, and ARM), and macOS and is preinstalled on C.H.I.P., Raspberry Pi, and OLPC XO.!!
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  self systemNavigation browseAllImplementorsOfList: #(become: becomeForward: becomeForward:copyHash:) title: ''become implementors'';,,Rhttp://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2021-January/213418.html;,,Rhttp://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2011/03/01/build-me-a-jit-as-fast-as-you-can/;,,Rhttp://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2013/09/05/a-spur-gear-for-cog/;,,Rhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/328509577_Two_Decades_of_Smalltalk_VM_Development_Live_VM_Development_through_Simulation_Tools;,,Rhttps://squeak.org/development/#virtual-machines;,,Rhttps://squeak.js.org;,,Rhttps://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/;,,Rhttps://www.graalvm.org/;,,Rhttps://github.com/hpi-swa/RSqueak/;,,Rhttps://www.pypy.org/;,,i,,Rhttp://www.seaside.st/;,,Rhttp://www.aidaweb.si/;,,Rcode://WebServer
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  			yourself!

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