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Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

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bertili2 hours ago

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.

zerr2 hours ago

What do they use for graphics and audio?

dashersw1 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.

zerr1 hour ago

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

sublinear2 hours ago

Ah this is for embedded apps. Pretty neat!

dashersw1 hour ago

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

jr359243 minutes ago

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

nuk322 minutes ago

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tarcon1 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