Thanks for pointing this out. I probably wouldn't have bothered to sign up for an account just to try out the app, if you hadn't posted a teaser!
Mono looks cool, but let's not give more credit here than is due. The application *is* a Cocoa app, that's why it looks like one. They are clearly developing the UI independently from the back-end. In other words, the part that looks good and like a Mac took work.
I found this page on their site describing "Dumbarton," their bridging mechanism between ObjC and C#:
I think they deserve credit for shipping it, making it look very pretty and keeping the disk image below 10MB. I wonder where the line is between their GUI code and their back-end. It seems to use CoreData for storage (chat logs perhaps) which implies that the Cocoa (Dumbarton) side is more than just a mere GUI.
Daniel Jalkut
· 3 years ago
Yes! iMeem deserves credit. Lots of it - for choosing to do the UI in native Cocoa :)
Now if only this bridge would let me deploy a Cocoa-based UI on Windows!
Adam
· 3 years ago
Just an update/reply to the request for correction on Mono use:
Unity (http://otee.dk) has it's scripting language running on Mono. It's certainly far from a trivial application. The decision to use Mono over Python or Lua or other was a master stroke. You can code in whatever scripting language you like and the output is compiled to bytecode so it runs faster anyway (and can be ported to "the other platform" if needed).
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Mono looks cool, but let's not give more credit here than is due. The application *is* a Cocoa app, that's why it looks like one. They are clearly developing the UI independently from the back-end. In other words, the part that looks good and like a Mac took work.
I found this page on their site describing "Dumbarton," their bridging mechanism between ObjC and C#:
http://allan.imeem.com/blogentry/gbgC7kTg
Now if only this bridge would let me deploy a Cocoa-based UI on Windows!
Unity (http://otee.dk) has it's scripting language running on Mono. It's certainly far from a trivial application.
The decision to use Mono over Python or Lua or other was a master stroke. You can code in whatever scripting language you like and the output is compiled to bytecode so it runs faster anyway (and can be ported to "the other platform" if needed).