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I hate web dev, and I find myself wishing that there were a modern equivalent of what you've described. Is there one that doesn't suck?



Cappuccino [1] is a port of Objective-C to Objective-J (plus transpiler to JS) combined with a port of the Cocoa Frameworks for building client side "desktop class" web apps. You can use interface builder in XCode to layout your UI graphically.

[1] http://cappuccino-project.org


Vaadin [1] might be close, if you don't mind the JVM on the server side.

[1]: https://vaadin.com/introduction


+1. This is the closest thing to what OP described that I know of.


Search for relax/relax on GitHub. You'll love it.




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