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0 pointsanotherjesse17y ago0 comments

I guess I should be a little clearer. I am already an "expert" in CSS/JS/DOM/... (after spending years doing web stuff and then over a year as lead dev on Flock). I really like the languages.

I've not used Obj-J so I cannot say if I will like it as much as I like JS. The idea of cappuccino providing a cocoa for the web is great, I just wonder if it could have been done without requiring a "new" langauge

I look forward to experimenting with your framework though.

Kudos!

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tlrobinson17y ago

Objective-J is actually a fairly thin layer on top of JavaScript. It adds classical inheritance to JavaScript, not unlike what most JavaScript libraries try to do, except it cleans it up (IMO) with Objective-C style syntax.

Even SproutCore is resorts to preprocessing code to get syntax enhancements, like their sc_super(whatever) which is converted to arguments.callee.base(this, whatever).

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