Cappuccino and Objective-J released as opensource
Date : 2008 09 05 Category : Tech & Development
Ajaxian
We were all very impressed with the work that the 280 North team did with 280 Slides, and they fulfilled their promise by opensourcing Cappuccino and Objective-J under LGPL:
Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.
Cappuccino is built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript, and it implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple’s Cocoa frameworks. When you program in Cappuccino, you don’t need to concern yourself with the complexities of traditional web technologies like HTML, CSS, or even the DOM. The unpleasantries of building complex cross browser applications are abstracted away for you.
Cappuccino was implemented using a new programming language called Objective-J, which is modelled after Objective-C and built entirely on top of JavaScript. Programs written in Objective-J are interpreted in the client, so no compilation or plugins are required.
The team has done a good job doing what many opensource projects miss, giving documentation and discussion. It will be interesting to see how others take this work and produce compelling Web based products. Let us know if it is you!