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title: 'Introduction';
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contents: '
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-##Amber Smalltalk in a nutshell.
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+##Amber Smalltalk in a nutshell
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-Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
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-It allows developers to write client-side heavy web applications in Smalltalk. Amber includes an integrated development environment with a class browser, workspace and transcript.
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+Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language. It is designed to make client-side web development **faster, easier and more fun** as it allows developers to write HTML5 applications in Smalltalk!!
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-Amber includes the following features:
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+Amber is written in itself, including the IDE and the compiler and it runs **directly inside your browser**. The IDE is fairly complete with a class browser, workspace, transcript, unit test runner, object inspectors, cross reference tools and even a debugger.
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-- It is semantically and syntactically equivalent to Pharo Smalltalk (the implementation considered as the reference)
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-- It is written in itself and compiles into efficient JavaScript
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-- A canvas API similar to Seaside to generate HTML
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-- A jQuery binding.
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+Noteworthy features:
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+- Amber is semantically and syntactically very close to [Pharo Smalltalk](http://www.pharo-project.org). Pharo is considered the reference implementation.
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+- Amber **seamlessly interacts with JavaScript** and can use its full eco system of libraries without any glue code needed.
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+- Amber **has no dependencies** and can be used in any JavaScript runtime, not only inside browsers. An important example is [Node.js](http://nodejs.org).
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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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## Disclaimer
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Göran Krampe