GNU Smalltalk Monthly Digest (April 2011)

ZuLuuuuuu wrote

Welcome to GNU Smalltalk (GST) monthly digest, a place to find a summary of happenings from the world of GST. If you don't know what GST is, you can look at [1] to learn more about this beautiful programming language.

Here are some of the news happened last month:


 - Nicolas Petton announced Jtalk. Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime:

   http://forum.world.st/Jtalk-a-Smalltalk-for-web-developers-td3354669.html

 - Gwenael Casaccio is now a part of Planet GNOME:

   http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/mrgwen/hello-planet-gnome

 - GNU Smalltalk 3.2.4 released:

   http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/mrgwen/gnu-smalltalk-3-2-4

 - GNU Smalltalk 4.1 is also released:

   http://forum.world.st/GNU-Smalltalk-4-1-released-td3419830.html

 - Mathieu Suen explains how to use MiniDebugger, a command line debugger for GST:

   http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/mathk/how-use-minideubgger

 - The WebQA did an interview with Nicolas Petton:

   http://www.thewebqa.com/javascript/nicolas-petton-on-smalltalk-on-the-javascript-runtime/

 - Chasing memory leaks:

   http://forum.world.st/Strategy-to-finding-memleaks-td3438067.html


[1] GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 programming language. It runs on most POSIX compatible operating systems (including GNU/Linux, of course), as well as under Windows. Smalltalk is a dynamic, purely object-oriented programming language, also well-versed in scripting tasks. You can get more information from:

http://smalltalk.gnu.org/

Mailing list:

http://smalltalk.gnu.org/community/ml
http://forum.world.st/Gnu-f1290346.html

Blogs:

http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog

Wiki:

http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki

Paolo Bonzini-2 wrote

> While I was using Tcl mailing list there was (and still is) a weekly
> Tcl-URL, some kind of report which summarizes what happened during the week.
> I enjoyed it very much so today I thought why not do it for GST? So here it
> is :) I might create a wiki page for it so that everyone can suggest what to
> add for the next month's digest. Suggestions are welcome...

This is a great initiative, thanks!

Creating a Wiki page is surely appropriate.

Paolo