Show HN: ElementaryUI – A Swift front end framework for the browser

5 points

5 months ago

Against my better judgment I could not stop building a Swift + WebAssembly frontend framework and just kicked a 0.1 out the door.

GitHub: https://github.com/elementary-swift/elementary-ui

I understand there is a lot of skepticism around Wasm for general frontend work, but I think this can actually be pretty cool - heck, even a viable solution. Especially combined with Embedded Swift - which is still a bit rough, but you can fit little web apps in under 200 kB (compressed).

The link contains a "Get Started" section with a template repo, you can try it out in minutes.

What are we thinking?