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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by rmrfrmrf on Saturday August 11, 2018 @09:24AM (#17739577)
Apple already has with JavaScriptCore.
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by scarface74 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @01:36PM (#17740656)
And what few people know, is that Apple already had a platform where all of the “apps” were written with JavaScript + TVML (a proprietary Apple markup language) - the 3rd Gen AppleTV. If I’m not mistaken, you can still write apps for the ATV4 that way.

Plex was ported to the 3rd Gen AppleTV as an unofficial app just by running a server on your computer and redirecting DNS to it.

https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/wiki/Install-Guide

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by tomwilson on Saturday August 11, 2018 @10:29PM (#17742621)
You can still on the current Apple TV. In fact if your app is just full of video content or similar then you probably should.
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by scarface74 on Sunday August 12, 2018 @03:23PM (#17745966)
Wow. That looks easy.....

https://www.raywenderlich.com/372-tvos-tutorial-using-tvml-t...

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