Thanks for posting the link. I've been following Bret Victor's blog and the stuff he has been doing for some time.
Bret has built some very impressive UIs using OpenLaszlo, and he is a fan of the technology and the expressiveness of the LZX language for building UIs. OpenLaszlo was created by bunch of smart folks and Lispers, including Oliver Steele (worked for Apple on Dylan), Max Carlson, Tucker Withington (worked for Symbolics and Harlequin, implemented the GC for Dylan when Apple hired Harlequin to work on the language), and Henry Minsky (Marvin Minsky's son). http://osteele.com/ http://pt.withy.org/ Here's an old gestural zoom/pan demo Bret built with OpenLaszlo: http://worrydream.com/GesturalZoomAndPan/ OpenLaszlo's LZX language uses a declarative approach to building UIs and highly interactive applications (check this video of the Laszlo Dashboard, which was created in 2002/2003 http://vimeo.com/14206607). LZX is a mixture of XML tags + JavaScript, which initially was compiled into SWF bytecode. In 2007 Laszlo added cross-compilation to JavaScript (DHTML runtime) to the platform, and in 2009 cross-compilation to ActionScript 3 (which is then compiled into SWF using the Flex SDK). Here's a video of the LzPix application, the first OpenLaszlo app to cross-compile to JavaScript http://vimeo.com/32853986 My technology dream-team for client development would be ClojureScript combined with OpenLaszlo (has a powerful view kernel with interesting stuff like constraints, datapath mapping using xpath, simple yet powerful animation APIs). Instead of using XML + JavaScript, I'd prefer to use a more Clojure/Lisp like syntax to build UIs with OpenLaszlo in combination with ClojureScript. There's a slight chance that we can get the OpenLaszlo Lisp folks interested in integrating OpenLaszlo with ClojureScript (they are all working at Nest Labs now), and I'm sure that Bret Victor would love the combination as a tool for building some awesome prototypes. - Raju -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
