Swift is well-suited for creating user interfaces thanks to the clean syntax, static typing, and special features making code easier to write. Result builders, combined with Swift’s closure expression syntax, can significantly enhance code readability.
  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone
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    4 months ago

    If you looked at the original github link, you’ll see that it has libadwaita (and naturally, gtk4) as a dependency.

    This isn’t fragmenting anything, and adwaita already has good documentation. This is just another binding for another language, not a whole new implementation.

    • TCB13@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I never said it was fragmentation, I simply implied that the fact that someone is writing bindings for a language that while open is mostly apple centered says a lot about the lack of a decent development framework.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I mean it’s a student project. It literally could be “I think Swift is cool and I like Linux.”

        And you know… They’re not wrong, Swift is a cool language, it’s just not got much adoption outside of the Apple ecosystem for whatever reason. It’s long been workable on Linux … I’m happy to see some novel work in this space.

        Swift is also interesting because while it’s general purpose, UI design was always in mind for Swift. That’s different from C or C++ which are the basis of GTK and Qt the predominant UI frameworks used for the Linux desktop currently (Rust might enter that conversation more seriously with Iced and System76’s COSMIC).

        You’re also right that there are options … but there are also options in the Windows world. Everybody isn’t using what Microsoft uses and even Microsoft doesn’t use the same UI toolkit everywhere.