On 29.09.2010, at 20:53, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
When I contemplate all the unecessary complex knowledge from those beautiful configure/cmake scripts and macros, I'm not convinced all this cruft will be easier to modify in Smalltalk than it is in C world.
You still have to know C and the C libraries to do anything at that level. Using FFI does not buy you anything in this regard.
While other languages see themselves as C extensions / glue languages and happily expose C constructs directly, IMHO Squeak should not depend on FFI, but use proper VM abstractions. Supporting FFI is good, depending on it, not.
- Bert -