Marcus Denker

Pharo3 was released in March 2014. Not even a year later, we are close to the release of Pharo4.

This talk will give an overview of the changes and improvements done and show some demos of new functionality. Again, Pharo4 is just a small step: after the release in the Spring of 2015, we will start to iteratet on Pharo5. I will present the roadmap of what we will work on in Pharo5.

Pharo3 was released in March 2014. Not even a year later, we are close to the release of Pharo4.

This talk will give an overview of the changes and improvements done and show some demos of new functionality. Again, Pharo4 is just a small step: after the release in the Spring of 2015, we will start to iteratet on Pharo5. I will present the roadmap of what we will work on in Pharo5.

Bio Marcus Denker is a permanent researcher (CR1, with tenure) at INRIA Lille - Nord Europe. Before, he was a postdoc at the PLEIAD lab/DCC University of Chile and the Software Composition Group, University of Bern. His research focuses on reflection and meta-programming for dynamic languages. He is an active participant in the Squeak and Pharo open source communities for many years. Marcus Denker received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bern/Switzerland in 2008 and a Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in 2004. He is a member of ACM, GI, and IEEE and a board-member of ESUG.

Pharo3 is close to being released. But development is not standing still: Soon the development of Pharo4 will start. As with Pharo3, the plan is to integrate changes for 10 months with a 2 month bug fix period and a release within one year.

This talk will give an overview of what people are working on for Pharo4. Topics will be - Boostrap from Source - Minimal and virtual images - towards one image file - better model for saving changes - VM level work (e.g. type feedback optimisation)

Pharo 2 was released in March 2013. Not even a year later, we are close to the release of Pharo3. With over 1200 issues fixed and many deep changes, it is the release with most changes yet.

This talk will give an overview of the changes and improvements done and present some examples of what can be done with Pharo3.

Demonstration of the Pharo 2.0 Smalltalk environment, changes since 1.4, plans for 3.0 and beyond.

Pharo is slowly but steadily emerging. A more robust and cleaner infrastructure has been put in place. In this session we will describe the steps achieved so far in Pharo and the next ones we want to achieve: like having a better FFI, integration process, smaller kernel, new scalable canvas API. In addition we want to give the opportunity to pharoers to ask questions, raise points of discussions.

Other people: Stéphane Ducasse