ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

8 comments

• gosen 32 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/
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  • frizlab 8 hours ago
    Project that is still alive, amazingly.
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    • jdminhbg 2 hours ago
      The last release and blog post are from 2018, is it actually alive?
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      • 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 2 hours ago
      > Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)
  • indstinctdialog 5 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.
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  • isodev 43 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.
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  • frizlab 8 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 7 hours ago
      Just wait until they rewrite Swift with Rust.
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      • monster_truck 6 hours ago
        I'd rather use Slopjective-C 3.0 tbh
  • vips7L 56 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.