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Looks nice but I don't have/want a Mac so I can't really use it. Support for other platforms would be nice.
by ranger_danger 8mo ago
Looks nice but I don't have/want a Mac so I can't really use it. Support for other platforms would be nice.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoSupposedly people are raving about Swift being cross-platform nowadays, this seems like a simple example where the Swifties can prove how useful/practical that is in practice.
- blazarquasar 8mo agoSwift is de-facto cross-platform without limitations. SwiftUI is something entirely different and not trying to be cross-platform at all.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoOk, so Swift-the-language is cross-platform, but can't actually do cross-platform UIs. So great for CLIs, bad for everything needing a GUI?
- lukeh 8mo agoTo some degree. There are _many_ SwiftUI clones that support other frameworks such as Gtk and Windows, with varying states of maturity. Or you can share the business logic and write the UI natively in Swift.
- blazarquasar 8mo agoI guess you could say that. There are frameworks such as swift-cross-ui, but I couldn’t tell you anything about their maturity. I don’t think CLI and GUI applications are the only software people write. Swift is a great backend language.