Ambrai Smalltalk

FAQs - Commercial Smalltalk Environments

Ambrai Smalltalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language and development environment for Mac OS X. It's aim to deliver a rapid application development platform suitable to create new or script existing Mac OS applications.
Whether you are a seasoned programmer or have never written a single line of Smalltalk code, we hope you will consider Ambrai Smalltalk for your next project.
Ambrai Smalltalk features a complete suite of native development tools and can deploy native applications that tightly integrate with the Mac OS Desktop.

• Standards Compliant - Ambrai Smalltalk implements the ANSI/INCITS 319-1998 subset of specifications widely adopted by the other major Smalltalk vendors.

• Source Code - Ambrai Smalltalk provides full source code, including the source code for the compiler, debugger, and development environment.

• Native Bindings - Ambrai Smalltalk can bind to Mac OS Shared Libraries and Frameworks.

• Objective-C - Ambrai Smalltalk can interface to Objective-C libraries including Cocoa. Objective-C classes can be extended and subclassed.

• Native Look and Feel - Ambrai Smalltalk uses the native Mac OS user interface framework and therefore integrates tightly with the Mac OS Desktop.

• Development Tools - Ambrai Smalltalk provides package, class, category browsers, debugger, inspectors, and workspaces. We plan to have an interface builder in the future as well.

• Application Delivery - Ambrai Smalltalk can deploy standard or console applications.

• Connectivity - Ambrai Smalltalk can interface to databases through ODBC and to remote applications through sockets.