Re:Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
by jamil7 on Sunday August 11, 2024 @01:53PM
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There's been a lot of work on this in the last few years with Windows support, preliminary Android support is also being worked on and should appear at some point in Swift 6.
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Re:Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
by drekipus on Sunday August 11, 2024 @07:40PM
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Is swift going to do what flutter and kotlin multiplatform cannot?
Re:Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
by rodrigobellusci on Sunday August 11, 2024 @11:11PM
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It seems something like that already exists:
https://skip.tools/blog/scrumskipper
I mostly work with flutter but Skip looks pretty cool.
Re:Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
by jamil7 on Monday August 12, 2024 @03:21AM
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I think Skip is doing a lot of this via transpilation, so I think you're expected to still write a lot of Android / Kotlin code.
Re:Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
by jamil7 on Monday August 12, 2024 @03:24AM
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There probably won't be a cross-platform UI layer and many Apple frameworks won't work, although apparently the Foundation Swift rewrite already works. For a lot of companies though, simply being able to share business logic will be a big plus. At my current company we have a lot of talented Swift people and existing code written in the language so being able to share anything would be a huge advantage.
I'm biased but I personnaly find the language really productive to work with, runs fast enough for my needs and let's me target more and more platforms.