Future directions

Syx 0.1

• Create a stable API, with a running interpreter and scheduler
• Add a mark-and-sweep garbage collector
• Create an image file format and implement it
• Leave glib dependency
• Create a basic plugin system
• A basic method caching
• Large integers, floats and number coercing

Syx 0.2

• Cover most of the Smalltalk-80 standard specification
• Fix dictionaries to use hashing
• Complete the basic Smalltalk environment
• Be able to run scripts from the command line
• Image compatible with both big and little endian machines

Syx 0.3

• Complete the Smalltalk environment
• Include a complete set of tests from other Smalltalk versions to reach a good compatibility level
• Improve the memory management including a remake of the garbage collector

Syx 0.4

• Create a basic GUI environment
• Include a basic packaging system

Syx 0.5

• Support multiple execution states of the interpreter
• Add support for OS-level threads and parallel computing

Syx 1.0

• Big bang