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Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced
TwilightSentry writes "Ars Technica reports that a group of developers has created an Objective-C-like extension to JavaScript along with a class library mirroring Cocoa. They've used these to release an impressive demo app called 280 Slides. The article notes, 'Whereas SproutCore seeks to "embrace the platform" by giving a Cocoa-like development model for developers already using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to make a web app, Cappuccino and Objective-J take an entirely different approach. "Since Cappuccino runs entirely on the client, at run time, we're never actually generating HTML or CSS," says Boucher. "When you build an application in Cappuccino, you don't need to ever deal with HTML or CSS. All of your interface is designed in Objective-J and Cappuccino. Cappuccino focuses on application architecture more than anything else, like building applications that know how to save and open documents, or copy and paste. We also built a powerful graphics engine into Cappuccino, so you can make rich applications like 280 Slides."' The developers plan to release the framework and preprocessor as open source. No mention is made of a specific license."
To extend the meme, now I'll start development of C-Objective Kernel Editor (COKE). that will be followed by Linux Apache Tkl/Tcl Extensions (LATTE) which, of course, demands Folding On AMD Machines (FOAM). Sorry, but I'm too tired to come up with an acronym for marshmallows. ~
Invenio via vel creo
Slashdotted already. Don't you people have better things to do?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Since it's Cocoa-like, we have to rename it Carob. Quick, somebody get their acronym generator going!
Too slow! Already taken.
Invenio via vel creo
Because everyone spends all their time flying 35000 feet above the Atlantic ;)
Quick, beam me up. I want to live in your floating habitats too.
You are missing the acronym that best describes a combination of Cocoa and Java(Script):
CAFE MOCHA - Cocoa-Alike Framework Extension Mirroring Objective C for HTML Applications
Just WOW!!
As someone who is just learning Cocoa, and finding it though since it's my first real programming language, I am amazed at what 3 guys in a college dorm have cooked up.
Apple need to drop that spruotCore thing like a rock and make happy with these guys. I read that they worked for Apple before spinning this out...
Perhaps if they get offered much better paid positions with Apple they might come back. This is some seriously cool shit they're doing. That web-app required no knowledge at all of HTML & CSS!!
You could even probably write code for OS X and "port" it to the web in minutes!! If Apple get in on this, they could seriously bring about a shift from Flash and horrible media plugins like that silverlight crap, to something everyone can use, even iPhones and Blackberry's.
Words fail to describe how awesome that demo app is.
I was dreading getting to the point of having to learn me some java so I can do web-apps eventually. They've actually managed to make me interested!! Programming is hard and I'm finding it tough, but now I really want to master Cocoa and start on Objective-J and Cappuccino.
WAY TO GO!!!!!
The truth shall always be free: Boris Floricic is Tron.
So, in other words, I can download this app and run it locally? For free (and Free)? Wow! That really sounds just ... like ... openoffice?
The funny thing is, OpenOffice takes about the same amount of time to load.
(At first, the above sentence was intended as a joke; then I realized, sadly, that it was actually true -- at least before the site got Slashdotted.)