Under the Bridge

Whilst this isn’t likely to be of great interest to us personally, if you happen to be the scripting type of chap — particularly if you’re fond of Lua — here’s something you may find interesting: a development environment for the iPhone called Ansca and aimed directly at you:

“I hate being a n00b. So I’m just going to get over and say that I am completely lost when it comes to XCode/Cocoa (Apple developer frameworks that use Objective C). I also am not so keen on Objective-C. Can anyone point me in the direction of maybe a book or two?” a befuddled developer asked at the developer site HackintOsh.org on March 17.

“For anyone struggling with XCode/Objective-C, give Ansca Corona a look,” urged Trae Regan, a central Florida iPhone application developer who blogged on the release of the SDK today. “It’s a Lua-based iPhone Development Framework that looks to be very easy to use.”

The Ansca development framework brings a JavaScript or Adobe Flash ActionScript type of language to iPhone applications…

Um, yeah. Right then. Must admit that leaves us so cold we do believe we’re actually superconducting, as we find Objective-C downright enjoyable to work with; but hey if it’s got you fired up, signup for the “early adopter” version is free at the moment and apparently quite popular; there’s also a small gallery of products published with it already.

h/t: MobileGamesBlog!