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Amber...

So...What is it about again?

Amber is a language (derived from Smalltalk) and environment built for the web.

With Amber, client-side web development finally gets the power and productivity that exists in other Smalltalk dialects.

Why should I care?

Having a true live & incremental development environment where you can build your application interactively in the browser is unbeatable.

Why a Smalltalk dialect?

Smalltalk stands head and shoulders above most other languages for clarity, conciseness, and human-friendliness.

As a language, it is immensely clean and mature, both syntactically and semantically. It is a pure OO language, with objects all the way down.

But what about all the JS ecosystem?

Amber plays very well with the outer world. You can interact with JavaScript objects seamlessly, and even inspect them as any Amber object.

Evaluating JavaScript object methods is transparent and makes using libraries a breeze.

It's a 3D WebGL game engine that is very easy to get to work with Amber. Specifically though I am using its WebVR integration. This is a pretty nice way to do VR development. Being able to take the headset off, change a method, and then put the headset back on without having to restart is pretty nice. -- ZenChess, on using babylon.js in Amber

Get involved!

Meet the people behind Amber

Contributing to the project

In a sharing mood? Contributions to Amber are very much welcome!

Getting started

Follow the README in git.

Mentions

Thanks for creating Amber: Nicolas Petton.

Thanks for supporting Amber: – they reward open-source contributors a free license of VAST.

Amber is developed mostly in , a privacy-oriented browser from JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, that blocks ads and trackers.