Re:Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML U...
by stymaar on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:39AM
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> Basically you built a miniature, integrated, embedded, open-source web browser which can parse CSS and render to SDL... very impressive!:
Modern LLMs are indeed impressive.
Re:Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML U...
by ovenpasta on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:45AM
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Thanks! The real work is done in the Adi2 widget engine.
Take a look at: https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2/blob/master/src/adi-widget... https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2/blob/master/src/adi-layout... https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2/blob/master/src/adi-css_st...
Regarding Pascal... yes you would need to rewrite everything I guess, Ada looks similar but it is quite different. Welcome!
I was particularly impressed by the following:
>"A built-in lightweight HTML view widget renders documentation-style markup with cascading styles."
Basically you built a miniature, integrated, embedded, open-source web browser which can parse CSS and render to SDL... very impressive!:
https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2/blob/master/src/adi-widget...
https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2/blob/master/src/adi-widget...
Also, it should be possible to easily, easily port this source code to Delphi and/or FreePascal and/or Graeme Geldenhuys' "Blaise" language (A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler, https://github.com/graemeg/blaise) should anyone in those respective communities decide to do that...
Also, if Ada had an {$IFDEF} equivalent, then with proper use of {$IFDEF's} (since the source code is so similar across these language families), the source code could potentially support all of the above languages from a single source code base...
But, of course, maybe that wouldn't be desired... maybe individual ports would serve those other communities better... and then again, maybe it wouldn't!
(Just thinking aloud... :-) )
Anyway, great work, and once again, very impressed by the lightweight HTML view widget!