I downloaded Croquet today to give
it a try. This didn’t work out very well, but I’m still optimistic
about this project. For one thing, this eliminates my need for a
gdb/irc interface, by adding collaboration to the whole desktop. The
screen shots look super-cool, the 3D-ness makes me immediately think
that lack of screen real estate won’t be a problem again.

I really find this project inspiring — it has reawakened some of
my interest in GUI hacking, which has long been dormant. I’d love to
see this ship as the default UI in, say, FC5 :-).

gcjx

We’re probably going to fork Jacks,
though nobody will know about it since my email never makes it to the
list. I’ve written a few simple tests for new language features and
put them in my own private copy. I did a little bug fixing in gcjx,
too. On the tree front, I wrote an article about writing GCC front
ends, the thesis of which is that it is way easier than you have
heard. More on that later.