1.8.0

[FunctionPoint]

This release is all about enhanced support for Node.js,
that are also usable from the desktop app option NW.js.

Smalltalk library

• Node: File System ('fs') and Path support fully implemented,
  with sync and async (promises) operations.
• Node: Operating System ('os') support fully implemented.
• Node: Process support fully implemented.
• Node: Environment variable handing now in new class: Environment.
• Node: Renamed classes there where also in Browser,
  so desktop frameworks like NW.js can compile them together now.

Examples

• NWjs: Added feature reading a text file using the Node Fs class.
• NWjs: Added example feature using imported npm package 'lpad'.
• NodeGui: NodeGui now works also on MacOS on ARM silicon!

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This discussion was created from the release 1.8.0.