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ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

106 points • by frizlab • yesterday at 8:56 PM • 31 comments • view on HN

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adrusi • yesterday at 10:50 PM

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

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gosen • today at 7:50 AM

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!

pjmlp • today at 8:42 AM

Bit by bit, we are having our beloved browser plugins back, at least for some of us.

jan_m_savage • today at 1:48 AM

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

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brailsafe • today at 1:55 AM

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

beans6543 • yesterday at 10:16 PM

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

maxdo • today at 12:13 AM

Any reason/motivation why ?

kamisori-daijin • yesterday at 11:10 PM

Nice!

MichaelTestGrid • today at 8:34 AM

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pipeline_peak • yesterday at 11:07 PM

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

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