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LinuxJournal: Quickly Create Graphical Applications with SashXB

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“SashXB is an open-source programming environment developed by
IBM. It is the Linux rewrite of the Windows-based Sash language and
uses JavaScript as a programming language. SashXB allows coders to
create GUIs as HTML pages rendered with Mozilla. A SashXB
weblication can execute locally or over the Web, provided you have
installed the requisite runtime. It allows you to create a GUI
manually or by using Glade, the GNOME user interface builder.
SashXB’s interpreted nature allows you to quickly produce working
prototypes.

“Millions of people who don’t call themselves coders have a
passing knowledge of JavaScript and HTML. SashXB allows these
people to create applications without having to learn yet another
programming language. JavaScript has a Java-like syntax, but
JavaScript is not Java and is much easier to learn…”

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