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ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser elementary.codes

adrusi10 hours ago

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

frizlabop9 hours ago

Project that is still alive, amazingly.

jdminhbg4 hours ago

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

joelkesler3 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/

thejazzman4 hours ago

> Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)

indstinctdialog7 hours ago

Objective-J is something I entirely forgot existed.

sampton9 hours ago

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

sapphire48 hours ago

The web version of Keynote with it was amazing.

pipeline_peak10 hours ago

I’d say this is closer to Blazor

gosenan hour 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!

pjmlp18 minutes ago

Bit by bit, we are having our beloved browser plugins back, at least for some of us.

brailsafe7 hours ago

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

beans654311 hours ago

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

jan_m_savage7 hours ago

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

isodevan hour 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

maxdo9 hours ago

Any reason/motivation why ?

kamisori-daijin10 hours ago

Nice!

MichaelTestGrid26 minutes ago

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pipeline_peak10 hours ago

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

frizlabop9 hours ago

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

alsetmusic8 hours ago

Just wait until they rewrite Swift with Rust.

monster_truck8 hours ago

I'd rather use Slopjective-C 3.0 tbh

vips7L2 hours ago

Typescript isn’t that good of a language.

astafrig7 hours ago

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

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