Thanks for all this good energy nicolas! Keep pushing :) Stef
On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Nicolas Petton wrote: > About 4 moons have passed and Amber - the Smalltalk for the web - has > during that time moved forward quite a lot. Since the 0.9 release back > in september we have made about 250 commits and closed 52 issues of > about 75 reported during these months. > > Now with over 43 forks on github and more than 230 followers the > project: > > http://www.amber-lang.net > > ...is live and kicking! > > A lot of cool stuff is being done in those forks and not in the master > repository, like for example the gaming framework called Ludus by > Bernat > Romagosa: > > https://github.com/bromagosa/amber/tree/ludus > > ...or Ambrhino by Stefan Krecher - Amber running in Rhino: > > https://github.com/StefanKrecher/Ambrhino > > So, why would you take a look at Amber? > > In our opinion Amber is perfectly positioned for the HTML5 onslaught > and > the explosion of all-things-javascript like for example Nodejs. > > Amber plays very well with others and can seamlessly use Javascript > libraries! It's a *real* Smalltalk, the environment is all there > including Workspace, Transcript, Browser, > senders/implementors/references to class, TestRunner, Inspectors, code > editing with syntax coloring and a Debugger. There is no image or > interpreter, all compilation is incremental. > > JavaScript is quite a broken language with lots of traps and odd > quirks. > It is the assembler of the Internet and we love it for that, but we > don't want to write applications in it. Smalltalk is immensely cleaner, > both syntactically and semantically with a simple class model and a > lightweight syntax for closures. It is in many ways a perfect match for > the Good Parts of JavaScript. > > And having a true live interactive incremental development environment > where you can build your application directly in the browser is > unbeatable... > > > Below follows a summary of the major changes since release 0.9. We hope > you join us in developing Amber and having fun! Fork at github, join in > #amber-lang on freenode and hop onto the mailing list. > > regards, Nicolas & Göran ...and a BIG thanks to everyone that are > involved in the project! > --------------------------------------------- > > Here's a summary of changes since the 0.9 release: > > - 80 new unit tests written > - 52 issues fixed > - All classes in Kernel-Objects, Kernel-Classes and Kernel-Methods has > been documented > - New documentation framework (see > http://amber-lang.net/documentation.html) > - Better class organisations, "Kernel" package split into several > packages > - First class packages have replaced class categories > - Internet Explorer 7+ compatibility > - New Announcement framework ported from Pharo > - New console-based REPL written in Amber using node.js > - Symbol class implemented together with object identity and #== > - New OrderedCollection and Set implementation > - Dictionary can now have any kind of object as keys. String-key > dictionary has been renamed HashedCollection > - New TwitterWall example > - Improved HTML Canvas, now compatible with IE7 > - Improved JSObjectProxy for seemless JavaScript objects access from > Amber > - No more jQuery binding. Amber is fully capable of sending messages to > JavaScript objects > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > esug-l...@lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org