Leigh,
The impression I got with HotCocoa is that the core MacRuby team was
busy enough with MacRuby to not want to get distracted with helping
develop it. I know that many including myself would be interested in
seeing it expand. (Rich did an awesome job with it, but it seemed to
have a long way to go the last time I used it.)
IMO anything you add would be awesome, especially if you have the time
to continue developing it.
Gary
On 11/13/10 10:08 PM, Leigh Caplan wrote:
Hey everybody,
I wanted to say hi to the list and introduce myself - I've been
lurking for awhile and come by when I need help, but RubyConf has me
all fired up, so I'd like to start engaging more with the community.
My name is Leigh Caplan, and I'm a developer in Seattle, WA. I like
long walks on the beach, dinner by candlelight, and not having to
write my Mac OS X apps in Objective C.
First, I wanted to tell everyone about a potentially useful menu extra
that I created called CobraMenu. It's meant to be a simple "traffic
light" for CI Joe (the super simple/awesome CI server written by the
Github guys). You can find more info at
http://texel.github.com/CobraMenu/ or just clone/fork it from
https://github.com/texel/CobraMenu
Next, developing this got me thinking about HotCocoa, and how it could
evolve into a really useful project in the future. I had a chat w/
Matt Aimonetti today, and he mentioned that Rich Kilmer, while still
interested in the project, both didn't have time to maintain it and
also wasn't convinced that its current goal as a DSL for creating UI
elements was necessarily useful for anything but trivial projects.
Apparently there's also been some discussion to this effect on this
list, but I'm a bit late to the party, so I apologize.
Now, I *can* see a need for a ruby-like DSL for Cocoa, but in my
opinion, it would be much more exciting if we endeavored to wrap other
Cocoa classes and idioms in a loving Ruby-like embrace. Here's a
rudimentary example (very much like something I've done in CobraMenu):
HotCocoa::URLConnection.get('http://google.com') do |c|
c.success { success_callback }
c.failure { failure_callback }
c.error { |e| error_handler.call_something e }
end
I'd be interested to see if other people think this is a good idea. If
so, I can formulate a strategy, and get to work :)
Leigh
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