Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

47 points by arbayi 2 hours ago on hackernews | 9 comments

Not apparent at first, but this is a TypeScript to c++ compiler at the core (https://github.com/geastack/compiler), with bindings for various platforms.

sublinear | an hour ago

Ah this is for embedded apps. Pretty neat!

dashersw | an hour ago

It also supports iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, Linux, XBox for Three.js games, as well as (some) Node.js apps.

jr3592 | 48 minutes ago

could you throw a react project (WEB) at it and get a native macos project out of it?

: letrix | 35 minutes ago
It loosk more like React Native: https://github.com/geastack/examples/tree/main/apps/notes-na...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5RDfAmzE7s

zerr | an hour ago

What do they use for graphics and audio?

dashersw | an hour ago

Each platform has its native bindings. For graphics, you write CSS and HTML canvas API as well as JSX, it renders to native components and their alignments, the canvas API is converted to native surfaces, whatever the platform uses.

: zerr | an hour ago
I mean, is it OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal? etc...

tarcon | an hour ago

"The earlier implementation could not be driven to zero of them, because boxing was load-bearing in its emitter"

In the docs of the repo of their TS to C++ compiler. https://github.com/geastack/compiler