Pharo 6.0 is out!
https://pharo.org/news/pharo6.0-released
64-bit, a bootstrap from git, immutability and even a new change management tool!
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StarScan: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:base/allocator/partition_allocator/starscan/README.md
Really interesting idea for improving manual memory management security: quarantine free()'d value until you can see all references are gone!
Apparently some hardware manufacturers use FreeDOS for their hardware management tools!
Dependency management in Go: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-principles
There's a tradeoff between work for libraries (declare your minimum version/any incompatibilities) vs work for programs (investigate when dependencies aren't compatible). If programs are more common, should we empower them?
