Am 28.03.2011 um 11:52 schrieb David Chisnall: > Thanks Fred, > > Projects that I'd be interested in mentoring: > > - Porting GNUstep to the browser. I committed an Objective-C to JavaScript > compiler to Étoilé svn over the weekend. Many GNUstep classes should work > as-is, some will want reimplementing wrapping their JavaScript equivalents > (e.g. GSDictionary, GSString, GSArray), and the drawing-related classes will > need tweaking to draw on a canvas. The final step would be implementing > DO-over-WebSocket, so you can run view and maybe controller classes in the > browser, model classes on the server, and have stuff Just Work™
Hi David and everybody else, today a co-worker of mine brought the Cappucino-Project to my attention. http://cappuccino.org/ is a JavaScript based Web-Framework which basically implements the Cocoa-API using "Objective-J" which is a funky JavaScript dialect modeled after Objective-C but implemented in JavaScript itself (it sits on top so to say. While I consider programming in "Objective-J" itself rather weird the existence of such a framework only points out the importance of David's idea. The world™ seems to be in need of viable web toolkits! And I like the GWT (Google Web Toolkit)-like approach of David of compiling to JavaScript better than writing in "Objective-J" which would IMHO only feasible for people already living in the JavaScript-Land. Those people – on the other hand – know the Cocoa API very rarely. So I consider this an important project for GNUstep even if we don't find a student for this (which means we need to implement this ourselves). cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
