I’m sure you all remember back on May 1st we posted here about Coherent, a JavaScript effort to bring Cocoa Bindings to the web? In a post that Coherent’s author showed up to comment on no less? And no doubt you headed over to check it out immediately?
Well, if you didn’t … now it’s too late.
If you go to the Coherent site now, you will see:
I’ve long felt Apple would provide the best environment for Coherent, and since I joined the company last year, I’ve been thrilled that we’ve been able to use Coherent in a number of projects.
Today, I am delighted to announce that I have assigned ownership of the Coherent library to Apple. Naturally, I can’t speak for my employer regarding what future products might include this library, but I can say my hope is that this will ultimately make Coherent a better tool for Web developers.
Or, is it not too late at all, perhaps? There’s some speculation over on Ajaxian that this is something deeper than Apple simply picking up a piece of useful code for themselves:
I heard from a little birdy that Apple is going to be doing some interesting things with respect to JavaScript libraries.
Recently there has been a lot of buzz around SproutCore / Mobile Me, Objective-J / 280 Slides and remember the Coherent Cocoa Databinding framework?
I think that Apple took note of the recent buzz, and it was at that point (not before) that execs suddenly saw that they really had. They have taken control of Coherent where “it could become the Cocoa library for JavaScript and is made available under a similar license to Cocoa and Cocoa-Touch…”
Interesting, no?
