What happen to Ambrai Smalltalk?

[Conrad Taylor]

Hi, I remember that Dorin Sandu was one of the developers working on
Ambrai Smalltalk a few years back. Anyway, does anyone know the
status of the project and will they be ever releasing it in the near
future? I felt that Ambrai Smalltalk was one of the very few
Smalltalk environments that had better integration with Mac OS and its
associated frameworks. Thus, I was even looking to purchase a license
of the software because I saw its potential for building native Mac
applications in Smalltalk. If anyone has any information on Ambrai
Smalltalk, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

-Conrad

[r***@gmail.com]

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Is anybody aware of any work on a Smalltalk that uses native OSX capabilities (esp. GUI)?

[Joachim]

Post by r***@gmail.com
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Is anybody aware of any work on a Smalltalk that uses native OSX capabilities (esp. GUI)?

HI,

not sure how far Esteban Lorenzano's work on MARS has come. Now that he's at INRIA, he probably doesn't have much time for it.
But that is the only "full" Smalltalk implementation for OS X that I am aware of. I seem to remember reading somewhere that F-Script can also be used to build comlete Cocoa applications using some tricks, but I've never tried.

Ambrai was looking so promising, but I guess they faced major problems with the fact that Carbon was deprecated, and rewriting the environment to embed into Cocoa was probably a really hard problem that put Ambrai far too far into the future...

One more thing comes to my mind: I remember listening to at least one Podcast (I think it was FLOSS weekly) where the guys from Etoile talked about Etoile and its Smalltalk implementation and the fact that in theory the code written is compatible with OS X / Cocoa.

Joachim