Starter Package
The New Objective-J 2.0 Compiler
May 17, 2013
The new Objective-J 2.0 compiler has three components: tokenizer, parser and code generator. The merging of this pull request brought major improvements to the tokenizer and code generator.
Cappuccino is a framework which makes it easy to create advanced web apps. With just a few lines of code you can have an app built with full undo and redo, truly amazing table views, drag and drop and every modern UI appearance and behaviour you might expect on the desktop.
Download CappuccinoWhen you program in Cappuccino, you don't need to concern yourself with the complexities of document-focused web technologies like HTML, CSS, or even the DOM. Cappuccino is focused on making apps and the unpleasantries of building complex cross browser applications are abstracted away for you.
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Objective-J Language
Objective-J is a powerful object-oriented language which compiles to run in the browser. Because Objective-J is a superset of JavaScript, it's easy to mix and match. Objective-J extends JavaScript with traditional inheritance and Smalltalk/Objective-C style dynamic dispatch.
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Stunning Controls
Cappuccino's AppKit ships with a huge number of controls, each polished far beyond what's expected on the web. You can quickly build complex apps without reinventing the wheel every time you need a scrollable, sortable, virtual, auto-saves-column-settings table view.
* Fish widget not actually included.
Interface Builder
If you have a Mac you can build your Cappuccino user interface in Xcode's Interface Builder, just like you would in Cocoa. Skip the tweak-coordinated-rebuild-test cycle and just place labels and buttons where you need them. The XcodeCapp utility will do the rest.
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Beyond the starter pack, Cappuccino comes with a number of tools to make it easy to create new applications. With or without the starter pack, you can install all of Cappuccino and accompanying tools with the following command:
curl https://raw.github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino/v0.9.6/bootstrap.sh >/tmp/cb.sh && bash /tmp/cb.sh
Your download includes a README file with a few quick tips on how to get started.
You’ll also probably want to check out our tutorials section. The get started one is designed specifically for figuring out what to do the very first time you download Cappuccino.
If you'd like the full source, you can check it out from our GitHub repository, or clone it with this command:
git clone git://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino.git
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...from what I have experienced using 280 Slides, a future with Cappuccino based-apps is a bright one.
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
...if you use Cappuccino, those apps will automatically look and behave like ... desktop apps - with zero learning curve on the developer's side. He or she can simply focus on building an kick ass app instead of trying to re-invent basic UI functionality every single time.
Ryan Carson, Carsonified
I can see the allure of Objective-J / Cappuccino for building desktop-like Web applications. It gives you a very high level abstraction over the browser. No more DOM. No more CSS layouts, which can be the bane of your existence for a complicated and dynamic layout.
Dion Almaer, AjaxianThe new Objective-J 2.0 compiler has three components: tokenizer, parser and code generator. The merging of this pull request brought major improvements to the tokenizer and code generator.
The time has come to move Cappuccino to Node.js. Why move to Node? There are three main reasons:
Cappuccino's build system is built on top of narwhal + rhino (jsc on Mac OS X). Rhino/jsc is the Javascript engine, narwhal is a set of libraries that interface with the host system. Rhino requires Java and is very slow. Narwhal has been abandoned. In addition to these dependencies, our current build system relies on Posix binaries to overcome limitations in narwhal.
Objective-J 2.0 now supports pass by reference using the new @ref and @deref syntax. Pass by reference allows you to store a reference to a variable in a different variable and then to pass it around. Among other things this makes it possible to send a message which returns multiple values (one as the return value, and an arbitrary number as output variables).
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