Some may have very long memories of a project at Macquarie University
to translate Eiffel into Java.
The other day I posted about SproutCore, which is a nifty new
JavaScript library to do desktop-like apps on the Web. This is
inspired by Apple's Cocoa app development system, incorporating MVC,
but is not a port of Cocoa. Now it seems another mob (North 280) has
done a way of running Objective-C programs on top of JavaScript
(Objective-J) in a hope of running Cocoa and its libraries directly.
Seems the advantage of this is programmers don't have to deal with
HTML, CSS, XML, etc.
Details of this are very sketchy at this stage and I have my doubts as
to how practical it is although they do have a PowerPoint/Keynote-type
application running in it.
Now what would be the possibility of doing this kind of thing in
Eiffel? JavaScript seems to be taking over, and in contrast to
impressions of five years ago, it is not a toy, but is very powerful
as frameworks like SproutCore prove. Could the JS environment support
Eiffel?
Ian
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