SproutCore: Introducing GreenHouse

Why not ship a self-contained demo where all you have to do is double click it to try it out, like Atlas?<p>I have to admit I am having some trouble installing this and setting up a sample project.

<i>"Some will even charge you for their beta releases."</i><p>I love the SproutCore versus Cappuccino battle. Two frameworks enter, one framework leaves.

There's so much cool stuff coming out for building web apps. If you started your project more than a month ago, it seems to mean that you're using old, outdated stuff which is going to make you less productive.<p>I console myself by realising that the lack of extra abstractions makes my application faster and lighter.<p>Seriously though, how does one take advantage of new stuff without rewriting too much or ending up with an inconsistent and messy codebase?

Seems half baked at the moment, but so did Atlas and nib2cib when they came out. I definitely prefer Sproutcore to Cappuccino and Objective-J. In my opinion Javascript is an excellent language for web development, where Objective-C (in Javascript form) is not. I really hope they pour a lot more work into this to make it great, as I'd really like to use it on an upcoming project!<p>Good work so far!

Seems like this is going to be the best way to build a certain class of polished apps w/o bothering with the app store. I was impressed that an app deployed this way can present custom launch images as well as present content in such way that the user cannot access the browser address bar.<p>With Mobile Safari support for HTML5 storage and HTML5 workers this is capable stuff.

I feel it is kinda sad that only nowadays we are seeing all the work that was done on Destkop ui Frameworks emerge on Client Javascript. I wonder how many MVC server-side frameworks (or hybrid ones like GWt) would have been invented if such tools existed 10 years ago...