ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

18 comments

• adrusi 7 hours ago

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

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  • frizlab 6 hours ago

    Project that is still alive, amazingly.

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    • jdminhbg 11 minutes ago

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

    • thejazzman 11 minutes ago

      > Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)

  • indstinctdialog 3 hours ago

    Objective-J is something I entirely forgot existed.

  • sampton 6 hours ago

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

  • sapphire4 4 hours ago

    The web version of Keynote with it was amazing.

  • pipeline_peak 6 hours ago

    I’d say this is closer to Blazor

• jan_m_savage 4 hours ago

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

• brailsafe 4 hours ago

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

• maxdo 5 hours ago

  Any reason/motivation why ?

• beans6543 7 hours ago

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

• kamisori-daijin 6 hours ago

  Nice!

• pipeline_peak 6 hours ago

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

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  • frizlab 6 hours ago

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

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    • alsetmusic 5 hours ago

      Just wait until they rewrite Swift with Rust.

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      • monster_truck 4 hours ago

        I'd rather use Slopjective-C 3.0 tbh

  • astafrig 4 hours ago

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