ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

beans6543 | 10 hours ago

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

adrusi | 9 hours ago

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

pipeline_peak | 9 hours ago

I’d say this is closer to Blazor

[OP] frizlab | 8 hours ago

Project that is still alive, amazingly.

thejazzman | 3 hours ago

> Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)

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/

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.

indstinctdialog | 6 hours ago

Objective-J is something I entirely forgot existed.

pipeline_peak | 9 hours ago

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

[OP] 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

astafrig | 6 hours ago

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

vips7L | an hour ago

Typescript isn’t that good of a language.

kamisori-daijin | 9 hours ago

Nice!

maxdo | 8 hours ago

Any reason/motivation why ?

jan_m_savage | 6 hours ago

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

isodev | 47 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

brailsafe | 6 hours ago

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

gosen | 36 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!