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By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:51:05 +0000

Thanks for the detailed investigation, Paulius.

But even with a cursory examination, other bloggers should not have pumped this framework up into something it isn’t, just for the clickthrough effect of dramatic storyline. Dilger used a year-old tweet and got copycat posts. That’s more dysfunctional than any poorly-coded SWF could ever be….

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By: joe

joe — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:39:05 +0000

Oh I know but I just meant for reference to how the JS would be generated as Gianduia will definitely uses the same route.

By: Paulius Uza

Paulius Uza — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:22:50 +0000

@Joe, Cappuccino is already mentioned in the article under “Gianduia’s direct competition”

By: Paulius Uza

Paulius Uza — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:19:12 +0000

@Joe thanks for the input.

When I said “hacky and difficult to read” I was referring to the readability of framework modules and website scripts. The example I posted inline looks like a binding description, and actually *does not DO anything*… And yes, it does look a lot like Cocoa, but it’s totally alien to JS developers that are not familiar with Mac development.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:16:57 +0000

Oh I forgot to mention that you could also check out Cappuccino: http://cappuccino.org/

It is very similar to what Apple is doing and I would be surprised if the people working on it aren’t offered jobs by the end of the year.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:14:15 +0000

“I might be mistaking, but after playing around with the live demos and looking at the sources I think Gianduia is not meant to be written by hand rather than generated by a compiler”

- It is written in an Objective-C like syntax which is then translated to Javascript code. What does this mean? Well if you are building Mac/iPhone/iPad apps and already using Objective-C then about 90% or more of your code can be reused to build a web version of the application.

“syntax is sort of unusual, hacky and difficult to read.”

- I am guessing you mean some other examples you’ve seen as the script you posted above was extremely easy to read to anyone familiar with Cocoa. Mind you the code you posted would have been generated and not written by hand so you are correct in that assumption. Although to be honest the script posted above looks cleaner than the majority of Javascript you see, maybe you are just unfamiliar with the Cocoa framework?