ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser (elementary.codes)
100 pointsby frizlab13 hours ago26 comments
adrusi 11 hours ago
Reminiscent of the now 18-year-old Cappuccino project https://www.cappuccino.dev/
pipeline_peak 11 hours ago
I’d say this is closer to Blazor
frizlab 10 hours ago
Project that is still alive, amazingly.
thejazzman 5 hours ago
> Latest Version: 1.0.0 (September 4 2018)
jdminhbg 5 hours ago
The last release and blog post are from 2018, is it actually alive?
joelkesler 4 hours ago
Yep! If you look at the GitHub repo, there is commits added in the last 5 days:
sampton 10 hours ago
I paid $20 for their interface builder and never got it.
sapphire4 9 hours ago
The web version of Keynote with it was amazing.
indstinctdialog 7 hours ago
Objective-J is something I entirely forgot existed.
gosen 2 hours 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!
pjmlp an hour ago
Bit by bit, we are having our beloved browser plugins back, at least for some of us.
brailsafe 8 hours ago
Looks a bit like jQuery mixed with jsx and ember or angular
beans6543 12 hours ago
Their demo is flakey and sometimes fails to hydrate in Firefox latest
jan_m_savage 8 hours ago
sooner or later this was gonna happen. Swift is like Haskell, but nicer and more programmer-friendly.
isodev 2 hours 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
earthnail 12 minutes ago
New versions of Swift are truly cross-platform. We support iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, HomeOS, VisionOS, WatchOS as well as BodyOS, BrainOS and iThinkOS.
To help developers focus on the future, Swift 9 drops support for deprecated platforms such as Linux, Windows and the web.
/s
I'm actually a Swift developer; it's a great language, but I'm also married to the Apple ecosystem and wouldn't choose it outside of it.
maxdo 10 hours ago
Any reason/motivation why ?
simonleeb 10 minutes ago
ElementaryUI author here.
The honest original motivation was mostly "Swift for websites, can I do it?". But underneath, I really want to use one capable and modern language (+ ecosystem and tooling) for all my dev needs. That includes having a native, "in-ecosystem" solution for creating web apps of any kind. Somebody's gotta build it...
I recently wrote a bit about that on the swift.org blog: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-august-2026/
kamisori-daijin 11 hours ago
Nice!
pipeline_peak 11 hours ago
We already have Typescript, I don’t see the purpose.
frizlab 10 hours ago
‘cause Swift is great, I guess! And more seriously, probably for a shared logic with an iOS & android app.
alsetmusic 9 hours ago
Just wait until they rewrite Swift with Rust.
monster_truck 8 hours ago
I'd rather use Slopjective-C 3.0 tbh
astafrig 8 hours ago
This sentiment is sorely missing from the endless Rust re-writes.
vips7L 2 hours ago
Typescript isn’t that good of a language.