Question

I recently found out about the sproutcore and capuccino frameworks for web app development as proper MVC approach to creating Desktop-like applications.

As far as I could understand, the main difference between the two frameworks is that Cappucino abstracts away the HTML+CSS+Javascript to Objective-J - a new programming language developed be the creators of Capuccino that adds OO capabilities to Javascript, whereas Sproutcore uses HTML5,CSS,Javascript.

After lots of pondering, I thought it s probably best to go with technologies we know, so I downloaded the Sproutcore tools and did the tutorials, and I have to say I was very impressed. Just the kind of thing I was looking for, for organizing a complex web app.

However, I just stumbled across the following link: http://charlesjolley.sys-con.com/node/1341228

in which Charles Jolley (the creator of Sproutcore) syas that he s tired of waiting for the HTML5 and ECMAScript5 specs to get finalized, and announces that from version 1.1 onwards they will be switching to Objective-J !

So now the question is - what will actually differentiate Sproutcore and Capuccino - and which one should I choose now?

Kind Regards

Swami

Answer 1

You should check the date of that post by Jolley. I believe it s April 1st :)

Also, I would suggest to give it a bit time, since both frameworks are terribly documented. I tried Sproutcore because i kinda hate all that Objective-J abstraction over an awesome language like JavaScript, but I realized that Sproutcore as well has a very steep learning curve (mainly because of the lack of examples and tutorials). It also hit 1.0 a month (or so) ago and many of the examples you ll find are outdated. I hope that in the next months the focus will be on documenting the framework.

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