Comments on: Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps

By: Jet

Jet — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:08:03 +0000

For some of us, that sort of verbosity makes the language easy to understand, and fun to use. YMMV. Cappuccino brought exactly what we love about objective-c and cocoa to javascript. That was the point. If you don’t like that, that’s understandable, but that’s also contrary to the design goals. If you don’t like the status quo of cocoa-style programming, you’re barking up the wrong tree with cappuccino.

You sound like something along the lines of SproutCore would be more up your alley.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:07:44 +0000

Looks like delphi a decade ago, only with obj c. No thank you!

By: Zimok

Zimok — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:58:16 +0000

Whops. Didn’t see that.
Hoping price woun’t raise up.

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:21:17 +0000

This looks absolutely brilliant! But another reason why web apps haven’t taken over is because a lot of people don’t have constant access to high speed broadband, and need desktop apps to do a lot of the work. Once this issue is resolved, then web apps will really take off – but good to see this can do desktop as well as web app development.

By: Rob Cameron

Rob Cameron — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:48:29 +0000

280 North is making some really cool stuff, but I don’t know why they took Javascript and just made it look like another language (Objective-C). Why not just make a great toolset for Javascript and keep it pure, rather than trying to turn it into another language?

Coming from a design background with HTML/CSS/Javascript, and the server side with Ruby, I find Objective-C to be ridiculously verbose and not fun to code in at all, which has been my big barrier to writing Mac apps (c’mon MacRuby!). Cappuccino just puts that same barrier in front of web development as well. :(

By: Francisco Tolmasky

Francisco Tolmasky — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:01:14 +0000

I did use 280 Slides for my slide show, that’s why I was using the PlainView full screen browser (which decided to do an update check in the middle of the presentation as you can see: http://www.barbariangroup.com/software/plainview). I find it amazing that I really have to explicitly state this every time or people don’t notice. A function of having done a good job I guess.

By: jonathanstark

jonathanstark — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:17:56 +0000

Atlas looks sick, and I’m signing up. But, did anyone else find it odd that Francisco didn’t use 280 Slides for his slideshow? ;)

By: Vivek Singh

Vivek Singh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:11:06 +0000

Hi,

please tell me the to get that tool its really awesome.

By: Chris Ryland

Chris Ryland — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:22:37 +0000

It’s too late, but you might want to set the barrier to beta a bit higher to avoid all the pure tire kickers…

By: Antonio Salazar Cardozo

Antonio Salazar Cardozo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:20:37 +0000

They’re being very clear that $20 will be the cost of the beta, and that it is completely unrelated to the cost of the final product.