Ajax Girl

Bill Orcutt just announced the first beta release of Lily, an open source, Mozilla based visual programming environment written in Javascript. Lily is a very neat way of building an application by connecting modules which handle the intricacies of working with data, animation and sound. It’s a testament to the power of JavaScript:

I’m happy to announce the first beta release of Lily, an open source, Mozilla based visual programming environment written in Javascript. Lily is a modular framework that allows you to wire together Javascript library components graphically. Currently there are Lily modules that wrap components from the YUI, JQuery & Scriptaculous libraries. There are also modules that provide access to the file system, browser storage, network & graphics. Lily programs can be saved as standalone XULRunner applications or as Firefox addons.

Lily currently has over 180 modules which allow you to take advantage of different libraries and services including jQuery, YUI, Google Maps and Amazon.

Bob has provided some demo links to get a feel for some of what Lily can do:

http://www.vimeo.com/625294
http://www.vimeo.com/625739
http://www.vimeo.com/626481
http://www.vimeo.com/625141

I especially found this demo to be cool since I was in need of some music! (Quicktime Movie)

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/225476156/lily-javascript-visual-programming-tool