ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

19 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 26 minutes ago

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

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      • $joelkesler 14 minutes 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 26 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 5 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 6 hours ago

  Any reason/motivation why ?

• $beans6543 8 hours ago

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

• $kamisori-daijin 7 hours ago

  Nice!

• $pipeline_peak 7 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.