Re: Progress on Darwin/Linux port?

Hi Gilad,

On Jun 25, 4:43=A0pm, Gilad Bracha <[email protected]> wrote:
> A couple of comments:
> A. Squeak's FFI is a liability and no one should seek to emulate in =A0
> Strongtalk or anywhere else.

Wasn't seriously considering it.

> B. Instead, I recommend porting the Alien API =A0from Newspeak to =A0
> Strongtalk. It has already been ported to Squeak. The underlying =A0
> Newspeak primitives are very close to the Strongtalk FFI so it should =A0
> much easier.

OK. Sold. Once I get the basic OSX port done I'll look to port the
Alien API.

> C. At that point, one should be able to start hooking up the Newspeak =A0
> GUI, which can be bound to the web or to native GUI.

How easy is it to take the NewSpeak native UI without the rest of
NewSpeak? Not that I'm not interested in a full NewSpeak port; I am.
However I'd like to have a solution that works for pure Smalltalk
programmers as well as for NewSpeak and, potentially, for other
languages as well.

Does the native UI have support for Linux or OSX yet? I was under the
impression that that was on the backlog from what I had seen on the
NewSpeak forums.

Regards, Steve

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