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  3. title: Amber Smalltalk
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  5. <div class="box">
  6. <h2>Amber...</h2>
  7. <dl>
  8. <dt>So...What is it about again?</dt>
  9. <dd>
  10. <p>Amber is a language (derived from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a>) and environment built for the web.</p>
  11. With Amber, client-side web development finally gets the power and productivity that exists in other Smalltalk dialects.</p>
  12. </dd>
  13. <dt>Why should I care?</dt>
  14. <dd>
  15. <p>Having a true live & incremental development environment where you can build your application interactively in the browser is unbeatable.</p>
  16. </dd>
  17. <dt>Why a Smalltalk dialect?</dt>
  18. <dd>
  19. <p>Smalltalk stands head and shoulders above most other languages for clarity, conciseness, and human-friendliness.</p>
  20. <p>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.</p>
  21. </dd>
  22. <dt>But what about all the JS ecosystem?</dt>
  23. <dd>
  24. <p>Amber plays very well with the outer world. You can interact with JavaScript objects seamlessly, and even inspect them as any Amber object.</p>
  25. <p><a href="https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki/From-smalltalk-to-javascript-and-back">Evaluating JavaScript object methods</a> is transparent and makes using libraries a breeze.</p>
  26. </dd>
  27. <dt>Quick links</dt>
  28. <dd>
  29. The <a href="https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki">Wiki on GitHub</a> includes a <a href="https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki/Getting-started">Getting started</a> tutorial for OSX, Linux and Windows.
  30. </dd>
  31. </dl>
  32. </div>
  33. <div class="box" id="getinvolved">
  34. <h2> Get involved!</h2>
  35. <h3>Contributing to the project</h3>
  36. <p>In a sharing mood? Contributions to Amber are very much welcome!</p>
  37. <ul>
  38. <li>The Amber source code is hosted on <a href="https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber">Github</a>. You can fork the main repository and send pull requests.</li>
  39. <li>The <a href="https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki/Contributions">contributions</a> page lists some possible contributions that which contributors might "adopt" and realize.</li>
  40. <li>You can also submit issues on the <a href="https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/issues?sort=created&state=open">bug tracker</a>.</li>
  41. </ul>
  42. <h3>Meet the people behind Amber</h3>
  43. <ul>
  44. <li>Most of Amber discussion and help happens on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/amber-lang"> Google Group</a>.</li>
  45. <li>Amber hackers can be found on the #amber-lang IRC channel on freenode. You can use the <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">Freenode web client</a>.</li>
  46. </ul>
  47. </div>
  48. <div class="box last">
  49. <h2 id="get-started">Getting started</h2>
  50. <div class="content">
  51. Amber is shipped as a <a href="http://npmjs.org">npm</a> package for its CLI tools and as a <a href="http://bower.io/">bower</a> package for the client-side.
  52. <pre>
  53. # Install the CLI tool `amber`
  54. npm install -g amber
  55. # Initialize your project as bower package
  56. cd /path/to/myproject
  57. bower init
  58. # Load amber via bower in your project
  59. bower install amber --save
  60. # Serve amber on localhost:4000
  61. amber serve
  62. </pre>
  63. The <a href="https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki/Getting-started">Getting started</a> page shows more details on ways to obtain Amber and start a project.
  64. </div>
  65. </div>