Amber [](https://travis-ci.org/#!/amber-smalltalk/amber)
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By Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com> and [Amber contributors](https://github.com/NicolasPetton/amber/contributors)
Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime. It is designed to make client-side development faster and easier.
Overview
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Amber is written in itself, including the parser and compiler. Amber compiles into efficient JavaScript, mapping one-to-one with the equivalent JavaScript. There is no interpretation at runtime.
Some highlights:
- Amber features an IDE with a Class browser, Workspace, Transcript, a ReferencesBrowser supporting senders/implementors and class references, basic Inspector and even a beginning of a Debugger and a unit TestRunner.
- [Pharo Smalltalk](http://www.pharo-project.org) is considered as the reference implementation.
- Amber includes a canvas to generate HTML, like [Seaside](http://www.seaside.st)
- Amber can use Javascript libraries and the current IDE is built on [jQuery](http://www.jquery.com)
- You can inline Javascript code and there are many ways to interact between Amber and Javascript
License
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Amber is released under the MIT license. All contributions made for inclusion are considered to be under MIT.
Building Amber
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Amber uses [Grunt.js](http://gruntjs.com/) as build system since version `0.10.0`.
If you already have Grunt.js v0.3.x installed locally run the following (otherwise ignore these lines):
cd ${Amber_DIR}
npm uninstall grunt
To install Grunt.js v0.4.x on the commandline execute the following commands:
npm install -g grunt-cli grunt-init
cd ${Amber_DIR}
npm install
And finally, compile Amber using the following command:
cd ${Amber_DIR}
grunt
For Windows support check the [Grunt.js on Windows](http://gruntjs.com/frequently-asked-questions#does-grunt-work-on-windows) page.
More infos
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More on the [project page](http://amber-lang.net)