Curl CAEDA Mobile

A preview of the Curl Mobile framework is now available in English at http://caede.curl.com/en/.

CAEDA is an acronym for Curl Application Export Development Environment.

With a few restrictions on Curl features (e.g., no multiple class inheritance in user classes) a Curl application can be exported as HTML5 (+ JavaScript, CSS), thereby no requiring the Curl RTE (Runtime Engine or browser plugin) on mobile devices.

Of course, compared to installing Java for a browser, the Curl RTE is a snap to install on any MAc, Windows or Linux platform, but for Android and iOS systems the problem is more serious.

Curl as the development language offers a terrific environment for debugging and testing web applets. The developer works in one language, not three.

Over the next two weeks I will be working with the CAEDA preview and reporting back at communities.curl.com on my tech blog: Robert's Blog.

Curl 8.0 and mobile roadmap

The SCS Curl page has a link to CodeZine in Japan with a roadmap for Curl 8.0 thru 9.0 over the next two years.

Highlights include Curl Lite for mobile, an Application Integrated Famework and then that AIF for the Cloud, a new Style Designer for GUI skins and much more.

If you have seen or tried Mobl, you will know how very close that language is to Curl in its declarative-style DSL for mobile.  Curl has been missing on mobile platforms and now Curl Lite 1.0 and 2.0 are on the roadmap now.  What Mobl does not have are all the other great strengths of Curl as a language, a framework and a growing set of libraries.

There is even a mention of server-side Curl sometime in the future in the 3 page article.