The release of Pharo 10, which develops the Smalltalk programming language dialect, has been provided. Pharo is a fork of the Squeak project, which was developed with the participation of Alan Kay, the author of Smalltalk. In addition to implementing the programming language, Pharo also provides a virtual machine for executing code, an integrated development environment, a debugger, and a set of libraries, including libraries for developing graphical interfaces. The project's code is distributed under the MIT license.
Among the changes in the new release, code cleanup stands out — outdated code has been removed (Glamour, GTTools, Spec1, support for outdated bytecode) and utilities dependent on the outdated code have been rewritten (Dependency Analyser, Critique Browser, etc.). Changes have been made aimed at increasing the modularity of the project and enabling the creation of minimal-sized images. Work has been done to improve performance and reduce image sizes (the base image size has been reduced from 66 MB to 58 MB). virtual machine the code related to asynchronous input/output, socket handling, and FFI ABI has been improved.
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