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Steamclock Software
Company blog · steamclock.com/blogprogrammingdesign
Steamclock Software is the company blog at steamclock.com, writing about programming and design. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steamclock's 2013 post on Apple Objective-C and JavaScript bridging. The links come up in discussions of native iOS apps versus JavaScript and web views.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Steamclock is a mobile software studio based in Vancouver. We make great apps for iOS and Android.
Most-linked posts?
- Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-15
- Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-10
What Hacker News says?
One important distinction is that C# and UnityScript and Boo are build-time compiled languages, not interpreted (or JITted) at runtime like JavaScript typically is. You can't dynamically download and interpret UnityScript code at runtime, or include it in downloadable asset packages. If you make any changes to your app, you have to release a new version of it, and convince users to upgrade, and you can't just push a…
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javascript-bridge/
on “Unity Learn platform free for three months”Submitted Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge as a story · 160 points
HN discussion>public System.Threading.Tasks.Task<string> ExecuteScriptAsync (string javaScript); That's what I mean by sending JSON messages, but I'm asking if there is a way of directly calling native code from the JavaScript interpreter, synchronously passing pointers to JavaScript data structures back and forth, not just copying strings back and forth between separate processes through an asynchronous message queue. Like Micr…
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javascript-bridge/
on “Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2”Submitted Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs? as a story · 104 points
HN discussionAny changes in the lovely JavaScript/Objective-C bridging stuff on iOS8? Does it work with the new stuff WebKit? Is it any better documented or have more features? MacOS since 10.3 has the handy WebScriptObject / JSContext stuff, which made it into iOS 7, but wasn't very well documented, and took some tricks to use. You have to fish a JSContext out of the WebView with [webView valueForKeyPath: @"documentView.webView…
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javascript-bridge/
on “WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView”Submitted Small Copy, Big Impact as a story · 30 points
HN discussionIn case you missed it, this made it onto the front page a while ago: http://www.steamclock.com/blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-jav... So there are some signs that you might (eventually) get what you want. It will be interesting to see if anything related gets announced next week at WWDC.
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javascript-bridge/
on “Why a veteran web developer finally turned to OS-native apps”Submitted Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The app that refuses to play Nickelback as a story · 3 points
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