[FoRK] Leopard scripting

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> Jeff Bone writes:
>>>>   * web browser
>>
>> Forthcoming, maybe... ;-)
>
> OK, that's the easiest one on the whole list.  Since Apple added  
> WebKit to the OS a few years ago, it has been possible to use their  
> developer tools to easily build a browser in Objective-C/Cocoa.   
> Total lines of code you have to write? Zero.

Yup, there are a couple of these floating around.  OTOH, what would  
impress me more than that is an uncompiled (or at least, not  
explicitly compiled,) single-file, concise, scripted implementation;   
instantiating and wiring things up in an IDE is a bit apples / oranges.

Scripting languages that give you full access to Cocoa w/o the  
necessity of the official toolchain are interesting, IMHO.  Python's  
been Cocoa-enabled for a while, but PyObjC feels a bit strange to  
me.  This Lisp derivative "nu" feels much more natural and is, in  
fact, the origin of the enthusiasm that inspired my original post...

jb