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).