Re: GNUstep, Google Summer of Code, and an idea

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

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