Jiggy bills itself as “the easiest way to create applications for the iPhone.” It’s an application building framework and set of libraries that allow you to develop iPhone applications in “minutes” using JavaScript. For those who find Objective C a bit of a chore (me!), the option of using JavaScript is refreshing. Of interest is that Jiggy apps aren’t “Webapps” (in the sense that Apple portrays them) but can be run natively and distributed.
The catch? Unfortunately due to Apple’s lockdown and enforcement of using Objective C with the iPhone SDK, this is a jailbroken iPhone only deal for now. The code examples and browser based “IDE” are interesting enough to make it worth checking out, however, as – and I speak as an optimist here – it would be interesting to see these sorts of technologies in the hands of iPhone developers legitimately one day.
(The other catch is that it’s totally out of date – see the comments. You win some, you lose some..)
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