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(Downvoters of parent, please stop, it's a perfectly reasonable comment.) While you're correct that JS can now be used to write Mac applications without an Obj

(Downvoters of parent, please stop, it's a perfectly reasonable comment.) While you're correct that JS can now be used to write Mac applications without an Obj-C wrapper, that's not really the point of this. Anyway, you can already write Mac applications in JavaScript. And iOS applications! This has been true since iOS 7 and Mavericks. http://strongloop.com/strongblog/apples-ios7-native-javascript-bridge/ http://strongloop.com/strongblog/apples-ios7-native-javascri... You can build double-clickable "applets" in AppleScript and JavaScript, but the OSA interface isn't really made for app development, just automation. However, they do expose all Cocoa and Obj-C APIs to JavaScript, so anything is possible! They even do a demo of a standalone temperature converter at the end of the WWDC session. https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/#306 https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/#306

philmcc 12y ago
After a quick search I couldn't (readily) find any links about writing Mac apps in Javascript. The Strongloop seems to be for iOS7 only. Where would I find out more about this?
matthewmacleod 12y ago
Yeah, I suspect I was a bit unclear there! I'm pretty familiar with ObjC-Javascript integration and have been working with it for a while. This change offers a nice direct system interface for automation, and one that has access to all of Cocoa. I also didn't intend to put Javascript down at all - its more that the more complex part of building a MacOS app is working with Cocoa, and Javascript will make that more complex, rather than simpler, just because of the impedance mismatch. I'm not sure there's a compelling use case for building such apps, but it's still pretty cool!
- Glide 12y ago
  I think you were being downvoted because some people (myself included) roll their eyes when they hear about Javascript yet again. It goes double when there is a good language already out there (I accept Objective C with its warts. Swift actually has me excited to make something). It actually kind of cool. And the Temperature Converter example showed a lot of the dynamic nature of the objective C runtime. This one presentation actually piqued my interest in looking at os x scripting.
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philmcc 12y ago

After a quick search I couldn't (readily) find any links about writing Mac apps in Javascript. The Strongloop seems to be for iOS7 only. Where would I find out more about this?

matthewmacleod 12y ago

Yeah, I suspect I was a bit unclear there! I'm pretty familiar with ObjC-Javascript integration and have been working with it for a while. This change offers a nice direct system interface for automation, and one that has access to all of Cocoa. I also didn't intend to put Javascript down at all - its more that the more complex part of building a MacOS app is working with Cocoa, and Javascript will make that more complex, rather than simpler, just because of the impedance mismatch. I'm not sure there's a compelling use case for building such apps, but it's still pretty cool!

Glide 12y ago
I think you were being downvoted because some people (myself included) roll their eyes when they hear about Javascript yet again. It goes double when there is a good language already out there (I accept Objective C with its warts. Swift actually has me excited to make something). It actually kind of cool. And the Temperature Converter example showed a lot of the dynamic nature of the objective C runtime. This one presentation actually piqued my interest in looking at os x scripting.

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