SproutCore Gets Its 15-Minutes

Posted by charles at June 15, 2008

About 18 months ago, I posted the then-new Mailroom 2.0 and the new approach we had taken to building it called the JavaScript Application. In a post called JavaScript Applications vs Ajax I wrote:

Mailroom is certainly not the only JavaScript Application out there. ... But we do hope that Mailroom will be a shining example of what JSApps are capable of, and why we think they are the future of web apps for business in general.

For the last 18-months we’ve been developing on these ideas internally along with some other folks who thought our ideas were interesting too. The result is a new open-source framework that we announced a few months ago and that will go 1.0 in a few weeks called SproutCore. And boy it is getting some attention.

I can’t really tell you much more about who is using SproutCore or what they are doing with it, but I can point you to some great articles. This one is my favorite so far: Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore.

We started Sproutit in part because we believe that bringing desktop-like business applications to the web would open them up to a whole new audience of small and medium-size businesses. It turned out that the technology we needed to do this didn’t exist yet.

Now with SproutCore it does.

Comments

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    Jeff – June 16, 2008 @ 10:18 AM

    Hey guys…sounds amazing, and looks great in mailroom and me.com, but what happened to the SproutCore page? It’s throwing back a 500 error. Hopefully it’ll be back soon, I can’t wait to check it out!

    By the way, that is a great article!

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    Paolo – June 16, 2008 @ 10:33 AM

    “And boy it is getting some attention.”

    It’s the cause of issues having your server right now, I suppose. :-)

    I can’t wait to read some documentation… So give a kick to your server and let us explore sproutcore. I think it’s what I’ve been waiting for… for a long time… :-)

    Cheers, Paolo

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    Charles Jolley – June 16, 2008 @ 01:04 PM

    Yep. We got onto Digg today. Wow..lots o traffic. Hopefully a new server will be up this afternoon…

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    Paolo – June 16, 2008 @ 03:31 PM

    This article can be in charge of (a part of) your server overload too:

    http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/16/apples_open_secret_sproutcore_is_cocoa_for_the_web.html

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    Paolo – June 16, 2008 @ 03:33 PM

    Ykes! sorry for that ugly link! Feel free to remove it!

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    Fred Brunel – June 16, 2008 @ 10:15 PM

    Hi guys,

    With Apple in the loop, I thing you have gold in your hands.

    Last year, I read an article from Joel Spolsky called Strategy Letter VI, he explains why your kind of framework will be the next big thing happening to the web.

    http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html

    Congratulations! You might be the leaders he’s talking about.

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    Dave Martorana – June 20, 2008 @ 08:22 PM

    Hey guys! It’s been a long time since we last chatted, and I have to extend my congrats on an incredible product/products. It’s pretty mind-boggling what you guys did just for putting your minds to it.

    Keep it up!

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