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| 20-06-08 / 00:08 : Ajaxian : Cappuccino / Objective-J (cjed) |
| Ajaxian provides a presentation of 280North's Cappuccino framework (see also the stunning 280slides application demo) : I really like these guys. A couple of them worked on cool products at Apple, and it turns out that they started the language and runtime work back at school. Objective-J is the language that takes JavaScript and makes it Objective (as Obj-C did to C). Lots of square brackets. When the browser gets served .j files, it preprocesses them on the fly. This means that you can do things like, use standard JavaScript in places. Cappuccino is the port of the Cocoa framework. The guys talk a little about the toolchain an why they did this, and even how it enables future cool things such as generating a native Mac application from the same code. Cappuccino will soon be available as open source on that site. Through the comments (where some unwise people - or really impressed/jealous - are jumping against Objective-C to mislead the readers) we can find interesting complementary informations : JavaScript does not have any way of writing applications today in the same way mature platforms like Cocoa do. Cappuccino provides you with very high level features like copy-paste (of anything), undo and redo, document management and archiving, vector graphics and animation, etc etc. What else ? |
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