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Bizarre! I guess it could be tempting for long time Cocoa developers who don't already know Rails or PHP? Though if they're building a basic website, rudiment

by Padraig 17y ago

Bizarre! I guess it could be tempting for long time Cocoa developers who don't already know Rails or PHP? Though if they're building a basic website, rudimentary PHP would be less hassle, and if they're building a web app and want familiar territory, Cappuccino would be a better choice. The trend in web apps is to do more of the work client side through Javascript (see GWT, SproutCore and Cappuccino) so a new server side framework seems a bit late to the party. Performance as a result of compiled code seems to be the only real selling point, and in my experience, server-side code performance is not a widespread problem... I don't begrudge someone hacking together something new for the fun of it, but this comes across as a real company trying to make a profit. Who's going to actually use this?

allertonm 17y ago
+1 I have a lot of time for Objective-C and Cocoa for desktop and mobile development. I'd go so far as to say it's a huge factor in the success of the Mac and iPhone platforms. It's pretty unique in supporting AOT, compiled-to-native executables while offering dynamic language and runtime features. However the reasons it works so well for those purposes (low memory footprint, fast application startup time) don't seem very relevant for server development - and the downsides (#1 being the ability of coding mistakes to corrupt memory and/or abort the process) become huge liabilities for a server. So my guess is that this framework is going to come out on the wrong side of any cost/benefit analysis.