<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Avi Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avi@dabbledb.com">avi@dabbledb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">One interesting (if odd) just-released language that targets<br></div>
JavaScript is Objective-J: <a href="http://cappuccino.org/" target="_blank">http://cappuccino.org/</a> . It's a near clone<br>
of Objective-C (only without the C), that compiles to JavaScript on<br>
the fly in the browser. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>What is the point of Objective-J? I looked into it a while back and didn't get it. The only advantage I could imagine was being able to take some Objective-C code and readily port it to Objective-J. And perhaps the familiarity of the syntax to people that already know Objective-C is worth something. But, in most respects, Objective-C is inferior to Javascript as far as I can tell (for example Objective-C lacks closures).</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Stephen</div></div></div>