"Last week's news about Apple's use of SproutCore triggered a lot of discussion about the future of rich Internet applications, run-time environments, and JavaScript frameworks. While SproutCore has been referred to as "Cocoa for the web," its developer Charles Jolley says that the framework was "inspired by Cocoa," not really a port of Cocoa. But what if someone ported not just Cocoa, but also an Objective-C runtime the runs entirely in JavaScript via a browser? Well, the developers at 280 North did just that." Ars has the entire story.
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Looks much better than SproutCore.
Check it out:
http://280slides.com
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2005-08-12
I didn't believe the summary, so I dove into view-source land.
And wow...
They /really have/ invented their own language, based around Objective-C, and wrote a runtime engine in javascript to run it in the browser. I'm talking, this thing is tokenized and parsed and executed in a virtual machine. In javascript.
Sample of the language they invented-
http://280slides.com/Editor/1214430215/Document.j
The interpreter-
http://280slides.com/Editor/1214430215/Frameworks/Objective-J/Objec...
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RE[2]: Holy-unnecessary!
by kaiwai on Thu 26th Jun 2008 21:14 UTC
in reply to "RE: Holy-unnecessary!"
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Unnecessary... but very, very cool 
The app they made with it is pretty special too.
The app they made with it is pretty special too.
Depends on what one calls unnecessary - if online applications took a form line that in the future (along with broadband improvement), I'd be happy for that to be the future of computers (although I would prefer it to be an option rather than a replacement).
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