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> having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y It's an HTTP client. The client codebase is here: https://github.com/httpie/cl
by da39a3ee 3y ago
> having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y
It's an HTTP client. The client codebase is here:
https://github.com/httpie/cli https://github.com/httpie/cli
Why everyone is getting their knickers in a massive twist because they have an Electron wrapper that they haven't open sourced is mystifying.
I haven't studied the codebase but I highly doubt they are going to have a separate client implementation for the Electron product vs the CLI! They're just trying to create a nice Electron client, in addition to their well-known CLI, and start a business around it aren't they?
- jkbr 3y agoWe started httpie/desktop as a separate codebase but are working on unifying it with httpie/cli and our cloud to avoid multiple implementations by extracting a shared runtime that will be used everywhere. One of the interesting challenges here is that HTTPie Desktop is written in TypeScript while the rest is in Python.
- da39a3ee 3y agoThanks, of course, that makes sense. How are you planning on doing it -- use a language like Rust that can easily be called from both and packaged? Or rewrite the CLI in Typescript?
- jkbr 3y agoWe have a PoC where the runtime is implemented in Python and the Electron and web apps use it through https://pyodide.org/ https://pyodide.org/. Still exploring but looks surprisingly viable.