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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
That’s the case, yes – the UI runtime is Qt5 (which is rendered using low-level graphics APIs, so we class it as “native” – mostly in contrast to WebView-based UIs), and it’s the same API regardless of which platform you’re running on.
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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
Maintainer here – Happy to answer any questions!
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Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI(github.com)
624 points by LinguaBrowse 6y ago|271 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
> What browser extensions other than content blockers exist, that have any significant user base and value, that isn’t already met by better and more capable native apps on macOS and iOS, and somehow could charge people money for the ext
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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
Two
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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
Thanks for these tips; really interesting. Getting a clearer understanding of the differences between types and interfaces, and got some confirmation of the merits of writing explicit return types. I was wondering whether any more could be
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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
> as I'm aware, the only "gotcha" of React.Component (vs other classes in JS) is that they shouldn't be extended. Facebook recommend composition over inheritance, but you can totally extend React.Component and even ge
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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
> If you are constantly passing large amounts of data between the JS thread and the Native thread or constantly changing the layout (which passes data between the threads) you are doing it wrong. I’m working on an alternative to React Na
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by LinguaBrowse 6y ago
> I don't understand why the JS is run in a separate thread, rather than just using the UI thread for UI (as it's intended for). By making all the interaction with the native toolkit asynchronous, it adds extra latency and lead
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Crank Native: JSX components with functions, promises and generators for mobile(github.com)
2 points by LinguaBrowse 7y ago|0 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 7y ago
This exists, albeit only for YouTube rather than Netflix: CaptionPop https://www.captionpop.com/
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by LinguaBrowse 7y ago
If they're having troubles with correct romaji transliteration (and even if not, to be honest), I don't see why they don't just transliterate it in furigana then. The source data of Tokeniser dictionaries such as NAIST JDIC i
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by LinguaBrowse 7y ago
Thanks, Dan! The incessant console-flooding was actually one of the things that made me give up on React Native. Great to hear that this is being addressed.
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by LinguaBrowse 7y ago
komali2 is referring to the long-standing issue in the React Native repo (#10027); see my comment for an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20713612 Maybe the Chrome/Firefox DevTools don't, but the
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by LinguaBrowse 7y ago
I'm surprised that everyone's looking confused here. Yes: since 2016 (React Native v0.32), at least on iOS, React Native apps in development mode try to open WebSocket connections to standalone React DevTools at startup and indeed
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
This uses my open-source NativeScript IDE, NS:IDE: https://github.com/shirakaba/nside NativeScript is a project to provide bindings for all native APIs (in the case of iOS: UIKit, AVFoundation, etc.) to a JavaScript co
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Show HN: Calling native APIs, such as text-to-speech, at run-time via JavaScript(twitter.com)
5 points by LinguaBrowse 8y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Call native APIs at run-time with my opensource NativeScript IDE(github.com)
1 points by LinguaBrowse 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Call iOS/Android APIs at run-time using JavaScript via my {N} IDE app(twitter.com)
2 points by LinguaBrowse 8y ago|0 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
This is an upcoming feature for my personal project, LinguaBrowse: an app for browsing the foreign-language web. It principally applies transcriptions (such as pīnyīn to Chinese, and furigana to Japanese) to text, but also provides dictiona
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Show HN: Improving accessibility of websites by providing image OCR in-browser(twitter.com)
2 points by LinguaBrowse 8y ago|1 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
See my actual narrative in the original thread (this one is a repost two hours after): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728515 Not Electron involved at all. The point of RN is that it is native; no overhead of running
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
There wasn't enough title length available for me to give context. Yes, I'm not this thread's OP; he reposted mine two hours later. See my full narrative, explaining why 'quietly' in the original thread: https:&#x2
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
See my full narrative in the original thread (this one is just a shameless repost): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728515 They've revealed that they're using RN for all their main products now, but never e
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
I gave some narrative regarding the 'big deal' in the original thread, and OP shamelessly reposted it just two hours after, so you're missing that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728515
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
Did you really just repost my thread, with exactly the same title, only two hours after I posted it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728515 Pretty shameless.
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by LinguaBrowse 8y ago
The commit in question, made on 16th July, uses the term "OfficeISS". I can find no mention of this online. Is this a straightforward code-name for their project to re-write their major apps in React, mentioned in the following tw
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Microsoft are quietly merging Office code into their react-native-macos repo(github.com)
6 points by LinguaBrowse 8y ago|1 comments
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by LinguaBrowse 9y ago
If you just want to try out the game without interacting with the repository, you can download it in the Expo Client via the URL: https://exp.host/@bottledlogic/the-box
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Show HN: My opensource React-Native-TypeScript 2D game – welcoming critique(github.com)
2 points by LinguaBrowse 9y ago|1 comments

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