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- Amber is a live Smalltalk that **compiles incrementally into efficient JavaScript** often mapping one-to-one with JavaScript equivalents.
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- Amber has a **Seaside influenced canvas library** to dynamically generate HTML.
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+## Arguments for using Amber
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+In our humble opinion the main arguments for using Amber are:
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+- JavaScript is quite a broken language with lots of traps and odd quirks. It is the assembler of the Internet which is cool, but we don''t want to write in it.
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+- Smalltalk as a language is immensely cleaner and more mature, both syntactically and semantically.
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+- Smalltalk has a simple class model with a lightweight syntax for closures, it is in many ways a perfect match for the Good Parts of JavaScript.
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+- Having a true live interactive incremental development environment where you can build your application directly in the browser is unbeatable.
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## Disclaimer
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This documentation doesn''t aim to teach Smalltalk.
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