well, the problem is that we're in a bit more difficult situation that Lua.. in Lua there's no processes/contexts..
and
if we would want implement an external message send i.e. send message -
get result, things not so straightforward as in Lua.
it's all because it was never designed to be run in a host environment and be open from that end.
that's why it is much easier to implement FFI, that C -> smalltalk API.
Currently, I am going to focus on making a standard interface for initializing the VM, loading the image, passing the command line arguments, running the interpreter and shutting down. This seems easy to do, and it allows me to unify the platform specific versions of the VM.
For more complicated stuffs such as calling Smalltalk from C, or a standard interface for defining primitives in C( for doing things such as moving unessential VM plugins outside of the main VM source code tree). We should have a proper discussion on the mailing list.
My priority with removing the windowing code is getting OSWindow working well in Windows. Currently it is having conflicts with the main loop provided by the VM, which makes it unusable.