Seeking to Understand

I just found out about a neat Javascript-based programming system for the iPhone called Jiggy. It’s probably a coincidence, but a few years ago I started a project named JiggleScript which happened to also be a Javascript-based development system that I had grand plans for extending with modules and such. (But since I can never seem to find anyone to help me with my projects, it of course died when I got bored of it one day.) The Jiggy team has a pretty extensive thank you page and JiggleScript isn’t mentioned, so it’s probably just a weird, cosmic case of… something.

Still, though… the universe is bizarre, isn’t it? I wish the Jiggy folks the best of luck - it looks really cool and targeting the iPhone with something like this is pure genius of the forehead-smacking variety. The iPhone platform is exactly the sort of thing I desperately wished for back when I was playing with JiggleScript (I even had ideas for a browser-based IDE like they are doing!) and when I got an iPhone and started developing for it, I never once thought of that old idea - instead I took on a much more exhausting task that, while I know has been helpful to many new developers and entertaining for others, is likely to have nowhere near the staying power or ultimate impact that Jiggy will probably have.

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