Re: [Help-smalltalk] [Iliad] [ANN] Amber Smalltalk 0.9.1 is out!

[laurent laffont]

Nice work guys !

Laurent


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>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
>
>
>