jermar
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Mobile build systems and dev tools. [email protected] GitHub.com/jerrymarino
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Comment · 12 years ago
https://github.com/jerrymarino/cupertinojs
Cupertino.js already supports this. It's currently pre-alpha, but there's a JavaScript iOS app that works in the simulator.
Comment · 12 years ago
Currently some aspects of prototype inheritance are implemented. One day Cupertino.js should support an ECMA standard http://www.ecmascript.org - the Javascript spec that most web browsers implement. Once this is finished it would have "full" support of the language, minus any vendor added functionality.
I think porting apps might require some refactoring around the UI layer or adding functionality that is only exposed by native frameworks. It may be interesting to look into supporting hybrid web frameworks in the future :)
Comment · 12 years ago
There's no license as of now but I'm in the process of adding one. Do you have any suggestions?
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for the feedback! At this point writing a serious Cocoa app would require using the frameworks directly.
I think would be awesome if there was a way to implement native Cocoa apps with JS frameworks like Ember or Backbone. It might require some plugins but if done correctly could be interesting and maybe useful.
It may be possible convert official documentation and examples to use JS syntax. This could remove the context switch to Objective-C syntax.
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree. For this to be widely adopted the discoverable piece is most important. Open source web apps are a great start, especially products like Wordpress because they are accessible to anyone.