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Slightly off topic but did anyone ever use Objective-J[0], specifically Cappuccino which was a great framework for building JS frontends.

I built an application using Cappuccino after having built a bunch of apps for iPhone and it was the most intuitive framework after getting involved in Xcode and Co.

Is cappuccino still a thing since Apple went to swift?

[0] https://www.cappuccino.dev/learn/objective-j.html

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I built an app using Cappuccino and Objective-J back around 2010.

We even built an EOF/CoreData clone on top of it. Good times.

It was incredible to work with, but ultimately not very “webby”.

I’d rather have WebObjects back. It should have never died.

Looking back it's amazing how much effort the authors made to make it objective-C like and not at all like any other Web technology.

I guess that made it too niche for a broader audience.

I saw a few presentations from the 280 North guys. It was clearly impressive what these 3 guys built. Learning from Cocoa/Objective-C/Interface Builder well, they realized they needed to build 3 separate, but interconnected things, the framework (Cappuccino), the language (Objective-J), and the GUI builder (Atlas).

They sold to Motorola for $20 million in 2010, and that was the kind of the last I heard.

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