[Cuis-dev] Bee Smalltalk Dynamic Metacirculat Runtime [WAS Re: Cuis 68000 64bit V3 image ?]

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

On 2021-04-23 07:22, Douglas Brebner via Cuis-dev wrote:

> What I've wanted for a while is a way to bootstrap an image from
> source, a la Little Smalltalk or GNU Smalltalk.
...
> Custom mini images for specialised purposed would be handy too.

Not quite there yet, and x86 only, but check out Bee Smalltalk:

  https://github.com/powerlang/powerlang

Just started a port to Cuis, so don't look at the code, but the 
README.md has pointers to essential docs:

  https://github.com/KenDickey/BeeYourself

A Pharo bootstrap exists.

Very promising first steps, IMHO.

I am very slow, but _my_ overall goals are [1] reproduce Bee bootstrap 
in Cuis to understand how they did it, [2] do ARM64/RISC-V:64G port, [3] 
graft Cuis on top.

Huge job. Tons of code to go through. I have a busy life and may not 
live to see it through, but darn, is it ever interesting! :)

Cheers,
-KenD