Objective-J and Cappuccino Released

Wizard Drongo writes "280 North, who earlier this year released 280 Slides, a revolutionary new type of web-app written in Objective-J using the Cappuccino framework (both of which they also wrote), have today made good on their promise to open-source the language and framework. From their about page: 'Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with. Cappuccino was implemented using a new programming language called Objective-J, which is modeled after Objective-C and built entirely on top of JavaScript. Programs written in Objective-J are interpreted in the client, so no compilation or plugins are required. Objective-J is released alongside Cappuccino in this project and under the LGPL.' You can download the framework, tools, documentation and more on their website."

Comments

Re:And for their next trick:

[MightyYar]

If it's as cool as their online presentation application, I'll actually be a tiny bit excited. The newest browsers actually run 280slides.com pretty well. Safari is acceptable and Chrome actually screams.

For the love of God, please don't run it in IE.

The Library is the Story

[iluvcapra]

A reimplementation of the NextStep/Cocoa classes in JavaScript, and extremely close modeling of the Cocoa app development process. The way you write an Objective-J Cappucino application is almost identical to the way you develop an Objective-C Cocoa application.

Re:The Library is the Story

[iluvcapra]

As an ObjC junkie, i must assent that the lack of namespaces is a major fail, and a lot of us are still scratching our heads about why Apple didn't add them in ObJC 2.0 (particularly if they were taking the time to add godforsaken "attribute" dot-notation).

Re:And for their next trick:

[Jack9]

This framework and language offers nothing new nor a compelling reason to use them. So your comparison is bad and your point is an attempt to look clever while failing to understand the wasted time and effort. I worked for years as a sysadmin, in a company with much more (experience and talent than these guys) while attempting to do what this framework is still trying to do. It takes about 1/10th the time and effort to create a BETTER flash app to anything that can be developed with these heavy JS frameworks.