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A Web Interface for Cosmopolitan Apps would be a great bridge for an UI.

auggierose 2y ago
I am looking for an Electron replacement for writing my apps. Could cosmopolitan be the basis of something like that, or is that not really its purpose?
- brabel 2y ago
  Lua is perfect for Redbean because it's tiny and made for embedding, which is this exactly use case. Something like TypeScript would require a transpiler to JS and a JS runtime, which as far as I know, even the smallest one would be much bigger than Lua. And Lua has well defined semantics to call C and be called by C, which may be hard to do with JS/TS.
  - DrNosferatu 2y ago
    Any examples and good tutorials on how to best go about it?
    - brabel 2y ago
      Best go about using Redbean? The project is well documented: https://redbean.dev/ https://redbean.dev/ Just go through it, it answers all questions you may come up with IMO. Or you mean about embedding Lua? The official docs are great too: https://www.lua.org/pil/24.html https://www.lua.org/pil/24.html If you prefer a tutorial, there's plenty as Lua has been around for a long time. Search on Youtube for example and there's lots of videos. The top hit on DDG for me was https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-c/ https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-... which seems pretty straightforward to follow.
- stutonk 2y ago
  quickjs [1] has native support for Cosmopolitan, is meant to be easily embeddable, and is included as part of the standard Cosmopolitan distribution. It looks like qjs also has patches for recent-ish versions of the Typescript compiler as well. Someone has made a nodejs-style project called txiki.js [2] using vanilla qjs. Maybe it would build with Cosmopolitan with some tweaking. But if you're thinking of packaging a whole browser engine like Electron that might be a Sisyphian effort. [1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://bellard.org/quickjs/ [2] https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/ https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/
- airstrike 2y ago
  I would suggest iced if you're ok with Rust https://github.com/iced-rs/iced https://github.com/iced-rs/iced It's amazing, but I should warn documentation right now is not quite thorough
lxgr 2y ago
Llamafile does that (i.e. it hosts a local web server that presents a GUI).

I am looking for an Electron replacement for writing my apps. Could cosmopolitan be the basis of something like that, or is that not really its purpose?

brabel 2y ago
Lua is perfect for Redbean because it's tiny and made for embedding, which is this exactly use case. Something like TypeScript would require a transpiler to JS and a JS runtime, which as far as I know, even the smallest one would be much bigger than Lua. And Lua has well defined semantics to call C and be called by C, which may be hard to do with JS/TS.
- DrNosferatu 2y ago
  Any examples and good tutorials on how to best go about it?
  - brabel 2y ago
    Best go about using Redbean? The project is well documented: https://redbean.dev/ https://redbean.dev/ Just go through it, it answers all questions you may come up with IMO. Or you mean about embedding Lua? The official docs are great too: https://www.lua.org/pil/24.html https://www.lua.org/pil/24.html If you prefer a tutorial, there's plenty as Lua has been around for a long time. Search on Youtube for example and there's lots of videos. The top hit on DDG for me was https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-c/ https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-... which seems pretty straightforward to follow.
stutonk 2y ago
quickjs [1] has native support for Cosmopolitan, is meant to be easily embeddable, and is included as part of the standard Cosmopolitan distribution. It looks like qjs also has patches for recent-ish versions of the Typescript compiler as well. Someone has made a nodejs-style project called txiki.js [2] using vanilla qjs. Maybe it would build with Cosmopolitan with some tweaking. But if you're thinking of packaging a whole browser engine like Electron that might be a Sisyphian effort. [1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://bellard.org/quickjs/ [2] https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/ https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/
airstrike 2y ago
I would suggest iced if you're ok with Rust https://github.com/iced-rs/iced https://github.com/iced-rs/iced It's amazing, but I should warn documentation right now is not quite thorough

lxgr 2y ago

Llamafile does that (i.e. it hosts a local web server that presents a GUI).