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Pharo 11 Released!

Dear Pharo users and dynamic language lovers:

We have released Pharo version 11!

What is Pharo?

Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful
environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.

[Pharo11]

  * Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types
    declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types. Yet a powerful
    and elegant language with a full syntax fitting in one postcard!
    Pharo is objects and messages all the way down.
  * Live, immersive environment: Immediate feedback at any moment of
    your development: Developing, testing, debugging. Even in
    production environments, you will never be stuck in compiling and
    deploying steps again!
  * Amazing debugging experience: Pharo environment includes a
    debugger unlike anything you've seen before. It allows you to
    step through code, restart the execution of methods, create
    methods on the fly, and much more!
  * Pharo is yours: Pharo is made by an incredible community, with
    more than 100 contributors for the last revision of the platform
    and hundreds of people constantly contributing with frameworks
    and libraries.
  * Fully open-source: Pharo full stack is released under MIT License
    and available on GitHub

... more on the Pharo Features page.

In this iteration of Pharo, we continue working on our objectives of
improvement, clean-up and modularization. Also, we included a number
of usability and speed improvements. A complete list of changes and
improvements is available in our Changelog

Some highlights of this amazing version:

Highlights

Tools

  * Iceberg (the git client/VCS control tool) has received a lot of
    tweaks and fixes to work better with GitHub and other Git
    services.
  * Our debugger now incorporates lots of tweaks and notably the
    capability of adding bindings in the context interaction model.
  * The is a new implementation of rewrite tools and improved
    refactoring support.
  * There is a new tool: The Document Browser, which presents
    Microdown (markdown compatible) documents placed on the web or
    locally.
  * New Tools presented in Calypso (the System Browser) and
    additional extended Inspectors.
  * All versions of NewTools, Spec, Roassal and Microdown have been
    updated with their respective bug fixes and improvements.

System

  * Extended Full Blocks and Constant Clock closures support.
  * Additional Inlining and optimizations
  * Bug Fixes and Clean up.
  * Ephemeron Finalization support.

Virtual machine

  * Ephemerons Production Ready.
  * Initial support for Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD).
  * Third-Party Dependency Update (Newer versions, Graphic Libraries
    using Hardware Acceleration).
  * Clean Ups: Remove lots of old code, notably old experiments, and
    dead code.

Development Effort

This new version is the result of 1412 Pull Requests integrated just
in the Pharo repository. We have closed 972 issues and received
contributions from more than 70 different contributors. We have also
a lot of work in the separate projects that are included in each
Pharo release:

  * http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools
  * http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser
  * http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec
  * http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg
  * http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3
  * http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown
  * http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments
  * http://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm

Contributors

We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you,
but most importantly because it is made by the invaluable
contributions of our great community (yourself). A large community of
people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 11.0 by making
pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads,
providing feedback, and a lot of helpful tasks in all our community
channels. Thank you all for your contributions.

The Pharo Team

Discover Pharo: https://pharo.org/features

Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download

Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation

10 May 2023
<-- [Call for Students] Google Summer of Code 2023



Pharo is developed by an international community of open-source
developers, coordinated and maintained by the pharo consortium and
receives essential support from Inria, RMOD, CNRS, UDL, Cristal and
many others.

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