- [0] https://www.cappuccino.dev/
- [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20140326112535/https://randylueck...
Aside from Objective-J, though, Cappuccino has performance problems. Every time I try the demos, there's so much jank, even though our hardware and browser engines are a lot better than they were in Cappuccino's original heyday years ago.
It's also at risk of being in questionable legal status depending on the Supreme Court's ruling in Google v. Oracle.
One of the cruxes of that post also stands out to me:
> Your day job is to build a piece of web software and you can’t take a few days to learn the ins and outs? [...] I’ve seen this reaction many times in the web culture. This mentality is pretty rare in the world of native development though. Almost every decent developer I know has no problem spending a weekend learning some new and cool tool, but sadly, this spirit seems to be absent from the web culture.
Looking at the state of tooling in the post-narwhal NodeJS era, the "web culture" has now "caught up" on this side of things, but unfortunately, that's not a good thing. This is another example of the deprogression we've seen. Webdevs had it right the first time on this one. It should not cost a whole several days to get started. The attitude that it should is pretty antithetical to the original value proposition behind Objective-C and Cocoa, in fact.