ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser
88 points by frizlab 10 hours ago | 19 comments

adrusi 8 hours ago
Reminiscent of the now 18-year-old Cappuccino project https://www.cappuccino.dev/
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frizlab 7 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/

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thejazzman 2 hours ago
> Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)
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indstinctdialog 5 hours ago
Objective-J is something I entirely forgot existed.
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sampton 7 hours ago
I paid $20 for their interface builder and never got it.
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sapphire4 6 hours ago
The web version of Keynote with it was amazing.
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pipeline_peak 8 hours ago
I’d say this is closer to Blazor
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brailsafe 5 hours ago
Looks a bit like jQuery mixed with jsx and ember or angular
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jan_m_savage 5 hours ago
sooner or later this was gonna happen. Swift is like Haskell, but nicer and more programmer-friendly.
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beans6543 9 hours ago
Their demo is flakey and sometimes fails to hydrate in Firefox latest
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maxdo 7 hours ago
Any reason/motivation why ?
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kamisori-daijin 8 hours ago
Nice!
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pipeline_peak 8 hours ago
We already have Typescript, I don’t see the purpose.
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frizlab 7 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
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astafrig 5 hours ago
This sentiment is sorely missing from the endless Rust re-writes.
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