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."

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 [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.