The sad part is that things were looking pretty hopeful in 2008-2010. I particularly liked Cappuccino. It's basically a port of Cocoa to the web. You could des

The sad part is that things were looking pretty hopeful in 2008-2010. I particularly liked Cappuccino. It's basically a port of Cocoa to the web. You could design your interface in OSX's Interface Builder. The project is still around and is still being worked on. Sproutcore was pretty similar, and is also still around. Neither of them are being developed as heavily as React or Angular 2, but they have both been mature for a long time, and perhaps don't need a lot of work to be done on them. Maybe it's just me, but I still find 280Atlas[1] and 280Slides[2] more impressive that many web apps that ship today, and they're nearly 10 years old and ran in browsers far slower and less capable than what we have now. I actually think more developers would frameworks like these if they didn't feel they had to stay on the latest and greatst JS treadmill to remain employable. And I write that as someone who likes React and Angular. They're both sane ways to develop complex apps, but they don't feel that much better than what was possible 8 years ago. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzAPLaFO7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzAPLaFO7I [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMZwfh-_QEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMZwfh-_QEQ