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No commits for a year? https://lolg.it/amber/amber Is it dead?

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I think so. SqueakJS fills the space Amber used to occupy.

Is Squeak itself still an actively developed project? I hear much more about Pharo.

i would like to learn pharoh, but I can't seem to understand how to get started. It looks like one of those tools you need a video to understand.

You can start with the Pharo MOOC: https://mooc.pharo.org/

There's a tutorial to get the very basics of Smalltalk/Pharo called ProfStef. Here's an online version: https://amber-lang.net/learn.html

It has a built-in version on Pharo images as well.

When you start it, you get a first start wizard that allows you to start a tutorial

Glamorous toolkit docs/examples are a useful pharo intro.

Have you seen you have this track in Exercism?

https://exercism.org/tracks/pharo-smalltalk

And this if you want to feel not alone in the first steps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-kAQWMMTQ

Thank you! Getting into it this new week.

It's actively developed. Pharo started as a fork of Squeak.

While it's slowed down in recent years, it's still active. Re: Pharo, that's just because they market it hard and don't give much (any?) credit back to Squeak which is what it was forked from. (and still shares more DNA with Squeak than the Pharo folks like to admit)

Squeak is certainly slow, but Cuis is moving at a good clip.

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