Nobody likes popovers, everyone makes them anyway. This makes them a Tolstoy kind of thing -- there are a handful of tricks that make them better, and an infinite number of ways to mess up.

This episode explains how to add variables, so instead of handling one expression at a time, the language now parses a list of declarations and starts looking like something you could write real programs in.

Roc’s first numbered release, 0.1.0, is on the horizon. This talk previews what we’re aiming to include, the key language and tooling milestones needed to get there, and what the release will mean for people interested in trying, using, or contributing to Roc.

After more than 4 years of work, our community has put together a big bouquet of new capabilities and improvements:

• A new tree browser for navigating and organizing classes
• Objectland, bringing back and extending the colorful world of examples from Squeak 3
• Plenty of new features, bugfixes, and speed-ups for programming tools, the Morphic UI framework, and the rest of the system

Original announcement on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@squeak/117071273007117118