Hi Arne, On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:11:01 +0100 Arne Eilermann <eilerm...@lavabit.com> wrote:
> first of all I'd like to introduce myself, because this is my first > posting on this list and it's kinda not mine at all. :-) Welcome! > The last years ruby was my everyday programming language and it still > is. But my new job at bevuta and a few people around this company > brought me to chicken, which I'm now learning. I hope you are enjoying Chicken. > My company just chose me to be some kind of a chicken communication > minion, so the rest of this mail is more like bevuta speaking to you. > > A few words on the company: The bevuta IT GmbH is a software company > based in cologne, Germany. We are like 10 Geeks in an office to which > Moritz Heidkamp – you may know him – in 2010 brought chicken. We did a > few smaller project in chicken but now the first bigger one knocks on > our door. I should add that bevuta has been generously funding our call-cc.org server, and we are truly grateful for that. > This project involves the development of a framework to create cross > platform GUI applications in chicken on Android and iOS. The bindings > for JNI to access Android's API is mostly done. The next step will be > doing something like that for iOS. With this bindings we want to > create an abstraction layer to get a common interface. > All of this is part of a bigger commercial and proprietary contract > work, but the emerging framework shall be released to the community. That sounds really interesting. > We already got some experiences with chicken on mobile devices. In > 2011 we did some OpenGL stuff on Android and iOS. Moritz was > significantly involved in this. It was mostly experimenting, but it > did quite well. > > If anybody of you is interested to join, feel free. We would be glad. It looks that there are other people interested in getting Chicken running on mobile platforms. So, I think there are good chances we'll soon see some nice projects on that area. Best wishes. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
