cosmic-sdk-swift VS Codename One

Cosmic — Headless CMS and API toolkit. Free personal plans for developers.

Hi HN, today we are releasing Blocks (https://blocks.cosmicjs.com/), our new data infused components for building Cosmic (https://www.cosmicjs.com/) (W19) powered websites and apps. Cosmic is a headless content management system (CMS). We provide a dashboard to create content and API tools to deliver content to any website or app.

Blocks are pre-built website components that you can drop into your project. Choose from landing pages, blogs, image galleries, product pages, and more. With Blocks you can build these features with Cosmic faster than ever.

It's our goal to empower your team to create the best content powered websites and apps. Blocks can be considered the missing "head" to connect with the Cosmic headless CMS. It is our opinionated component frontend for building highly scalable and performant web applications built with tools we think offer a development experience and performance advantage (React Server Components, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS).

React Server Components (RSCs) have unlocked a new paradigm in building data-driven web applications. By safely encapsulating data-fetching inside components, we can use RSCs as building blocks to enable faster and more scalable application development. We are excited for the potential of RSCs and Blocks. This is just the beginning.

To get started, go to the Blocks website (https://blocks.cosmicjs.com/) and follow the steps for installation. View the Blocks demo (Agency Template) (https://cosmic-agency-template.vercel.app/) to see all of the Blocks in action.

Blocks are built to give developers a head start with features that are:

- Performance optimized

In this article, we’re going to cover best practices for using React Server Components along with a headless CMS. We’ll also cover when to use client-side components and how to best structure your websites and apps for efficient data fetching from a headless CMS, in our case Cosmic (learn more about Cosmic here). Alright, let’s get into it:

RESTful API: Cosmic provides a RESTful API allowing for easy integration with any web or mobile applications. The Cosmic SDK for Swift abstracts the REST API to manage the CRUD operations for our app, this is what we’ll be using for our app.

codenameone.com — Open source, cross-platform, mobile app development toolchain for Java/Kotlin developers. Free for commercial use with an unlimited number of projects

This was resolved in this issue: https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/issues/3706

Naturally depends on the use case, yet they work good enough to be in business for 20 years.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm-tools/

https://www.codenameone.com/

Android 5 & 6 (only changed back into JIT/AOT due to long compile times), https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/07/art-runtime/

Unfortunely the best well known, Excelsior JET, is no longer in business, most likely due to GraalVM and OpenJ9 being available as free beer, while PTC, Aicas Codename One are safe in their domains.

There is also RoboVM (https://github.com/MobiVM/robovm) as free beer, however it actually started as a commercial product, and the acquisition from Xamarin kind of stagnated it (naturally).

At Codename One, we were using App Engine when our daily billing suddenly skyrocketed from a few dollars to hundreds. The potential cost was so high it threatened to bankrupt us within a month. Despite our best efforts, including educated guesses and fixing everything we could, we were never able to pinpoint the specific bug. Instead, we had to solve the problem through brute force.

We don't use GraalVM since our project was developed prior to its existence and we aimed for deeper native integration than it can offer: https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne

XMLVM, Codename One and iSpectrum (cross compile Java code from an Android app or creating one from scratch

I suggest filing an RFE in the issue tracker.

Thanks. It's always good to get another reminder. Yes, it was reported. u/shannah78 is working on this but we have time until November.

please check this issue https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/issues/3686

We use ParparVM which we wrote. It compiles a subset of Java 8 (sort of) to native by translating the bytecode to C and passing that through XCode. The reason we took this path and not the path of "direct to native", is that it allows for future compatibility.