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by sgrove 1835 days ago
Also worth looking at some of what was possible back in 2008 (and was sidetracked for unrelated reasons) - it's great to see these ideas coming back in a viable way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzAPLaFO7I [280 North Atlas]
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codethief 1835 days ago
I've only skimmed the video but it looks like your philosophy was a bit different, in that you were pursuing a visual programming / no-code approach?
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sgrove 1835 days ago
Sorry, should have clarified - that was work done by 280 North, a YC company from W08, all ex-apple. They built:

  - Objective-J (JavaScript equivalent of Objective-C)

 - Cappuccino (Objective-J equivalent of Cocoa, from what I remember)
 - Atlas (equivalent of InterfaceBuilder)
 - Slides (equivalent of Keynote)
The UI builder serialized to the nib equivalent so code wasn't the source of truth, but it was definitely not a no-code approach (code methods were exposed in their GUI builder, and you could consume the nib artifact from your code).
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