[JimRoepcke]

I built an app using Cappuccino and Objective-J back around 2010.

We even built an EOF/CoreData clone on top of it. Good times.

It was incredible to work with, but ultimately not very “webby”.

I’d rather have WebObjects back. It should have never died.

[Towaway69]

Looking back it's amazing how much effort the authors made to make it objective-C like and not at all like any other Web technology.

I guess that made it too niche for a broader audience.

[dottrap]

I saw a few presentations from the 280 North guys. It was clearly impressive what these 3 guys built. Learning from Cocoa/Objective-C/Interface Builder well, they realized they needed to build 3 separate, but interconnected things, the framework (Cappuccino), the language (Objective-J), and the GUI builder (Atlas).

They sold to Motorola for $20 million in 2010, and that was the kind of the last I heard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631002