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Slightly off topic but did anyone ever use Objective-J[0], specifically Cappuccino which was a great framework for building JS frontends. I built an applicatio
by Towaway69 3y ago
Slightly off topic but did anyone ever use Objective-J[0], specifically Cappuccino which was a great framework for building JS frontends.
I built an application using Cappuccino after having built a bunch of apps for iPhone and it was the most intuitive framework after getting involved in Xcode and Co.
Is cappuccino still a thing since Apple went to swift?
[0] https://www.cappuccino.dev/learn/objective-j.html https://www.cappuccino.dev/learn/objective-j.html
- JimRoepcke 3y agoI built an app using Cappuccino and Objective-J back around 2010. We even built an EOF/CoreData clone on top of it. Good times. It was incredible to work with, but ultimately not very “webby”. I’d rather have WebObjects back. It should have never died.
- Towaway69 3y agoLooking back it's amazing how much effort the authors made to make it objective-C like and not at all like any other Web technology. I guess that made it too niche for a broader audience.
- dottrap 3y agoI saw a few presentations from the 280 North guys. It was clearly impressive what these 3 guys built. Learning from Cocoa/Objective-C/Interface Builder well, they realized they needed to build 3 separate, but interconnected things, the framework (Cappuccino), the language (Objective-J), and the GUI builder (Atlas). They sold to Motorola for $20 million in 2010, and that was the kind of the last I heard. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631002