Astro Hacker News - Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

bertili |next [-]

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.

zerr |next |previous [-]

What do they use for graphics and audio?

zero_shift |root |parent |next [-]

It's not clear at first glance, but given (1) the apps are written in JavaScript (2) the project has repos for different OS native bindings, my bet is some kind of embedded JavaScript engine that just calls through to OS native widets

dashersw |root |parent |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

I mean, is it OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal? etc...

sublinear |next |previous [-]

Ah this is for embedded apps. Pretty neat!

dashersw |root |parent [-]

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

jr3592 |root |parent [-]

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

letrix |root |parent [-]

It loosk more like React Native: https://github.com/geastack/examples/tree/main/apps/notes-na...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5RDfAmzE7s

nuk3 |next |previous [-]

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tarcon |previous [-]

"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