[dh83]

Pharo has quite a decent set of command-line tools at hand for a Smalltalk (see also http://pharobooks.gforge.inria.fr/PharoByExampleTwo-Eng/late...). As for FFI we're about to fully integrate NativeBoost into the system which already provides decent FFI interaction on all X86 platforms: https://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/. The VM we use features a JIT, albeit not highly elaborate, it gives decent speedups. Besides that there is some research of mine going on, on how to implement the JIT native code generate at language side, which would give us the Smalltalk-level control over that piece.

[igouy]

Wonderful!

(I didn't ask about Pharo, I complained about promoting Pharo by dissing other Smalltalk implementations.)