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▲ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser (elementary.codes)

95 points by frizlab 11 hours ago | 22 comments

gosen 7 minutes ago [-]

It would be interesting to see any benchmarks / comparisons to understand what are the benefits of having Swift in the browser. Is it faster? Easier to maintain? Or is it based more on the sympathy to the programming language in general?

But great job anyway!

adrusi 9 hours ago [-]

Reminiscent of the now 18-year-old Cappuccino project https://www.cappuccino.dev/

frizlab 8 hours ago [-]

Project that is still alive, amazingly.

jdminhbg 3 hours ago [-]

The last release and blog post are from 2018, is it actually alive?

joelkesler 2 hours ago [-]

Yep! If you look at the GitHub repo, there is commits added in the last 5 days:

https://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino/commits/main/

thejazzman 3 hours ago [-]

> Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)

indstinctdialog 6 hours ago [-]

Objective-J is something I entirely forgot existed.

sampton 8 hours ago [-]

I paid $20 for their interface builder and never got it.

sapphire4 7 hours ago [-]

The web version of Keynote with it was amazing.

pipeline_peak 9 hours ago [-]

I’d say this is closer to Blazor

brailsafe 6 hours ago [-]

Looks a bit like jQuery mixed with jsx and ember or angular

jan_m_savage 6 hours ago [-]

sooner or later this was gonna happen. Swift is like Haskell, but nicer and more programmer-friendly.

isodev 19 minutes ago [-]

I wouldn’t fly so close to Apple if I have the choice. Apple could pivot at any moment - “New versions of Swift start at $99,99” /s

beans6543 10 hours ago [-]

Their demo is flakey and sometimes fails to hydrate in Firefox latest

maxdo 8 hours ago [-]

Any reason/motivation why ?

kamisori-daijin 9 hours ago [-]

Nice!

pipeline_peak 9 hours ago [-]

We already have Typescript, I don’t see the purpose.

frizlab 8 hours ago [-]

‘cause Swift is great, I guess! And more seriously, probably for a shared logic with an iOS & android app.

alsetmusic 7 hours ago [-]

Just wait until they rewrite Swift with Rust.

monster_truck 7 hours ago [-]

I'd rather use Slopjective-C 3.0 tbh

vips7L 31 minutes ago [-]

Typescript isn’t that good of a language.

astafrig 6 hours ago [-]

This sentiment is sorely missing from the endless Rust re-writes.

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