swift-win32
hummingbird
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6.8 | 9.3 | |
28 days ago | 4 days ago | |
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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swift-win32
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Swift for windows - current state and how to get aboard
For jumping abord, there are not very many frameworks for UI development. There is https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32 which is less WinForms and more Common Control based. There were a couple of different attempts for WinRT to get XAML based UI systems. There was no official support for UWP, and that would likely require some tweaks to the runtime.
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Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
Even Microsoft has someone dedicating their time to building Win32 support.
- Manipulating Windows Registry with Swift programming lang
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Writing on Windows -> Compile on Mac workflow possible?
Swift does run on windows now. There’s also a package that lets you use Win32 to write GUI apps (https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32). The core code (data models, networking, etc) can be common, but UI will have to be different (Win32 on windows and AppKit/Catalyst/SwiftUI on Mac)
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UIKit on Windows?
As others have mentioned, UIKit is an Apple framework and not available on Windows, though you should be able to use the Win32 APIs to build out UI interfaces. Alternatively, you can experiment with https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32 for a nice layer on top which abstracts out some of the details of the Win32 API. Unfortunately, that is not as fleshed out as one would like to build complex applications, but that is something which more usage and work on library should be able to resolve.
- Swift on Windows
- When I think of Swift I immediately think of iOS programming/mobile programming, What else can Swift do?
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Are there any libraries for building Windows apps or GUI for Windows using Swift only?
For native apps, there's this, which gives an AppKit-like interface to build GUIs.
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Any good open source projects that uses Swift?
If you’re looking for Windows first projects with Swift, https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32 is pretty cool.
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Why learn Swift when it’s only compatible with iOS?
Also check out this project by a member of the Swift core team, which is a set of bindings for the Win32 API for Swift on Windows.
hummingbird
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An aborted experiment with server Swift
Such a shame. Swift has many beautiful language features.
I give swift a try every once in a while.
Problems of my last attempt:
- The Swift REPL (lldb to be precise) depends on libpython-dev (v3.8). WSL (ubuntu 22.04) comes with 2.7 and 3.10, so the lldb dependency depends on an old python version. The fix was to copy the 3.10 binary to the directory where lldb expects it, and rename it to libpython3.8.so. It seems that it's backwards compatible so it worked on my machine.
- I tried to compile and statically link a hummingbird (web framework, more light weight than vapot, https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird) hello-world example. I had a liking error. Luckilly someone in the swift forums helped me. The problem was that my package.swift file had the "-static-stdlib" flag only as a swiftSettings. It needed to be also a linkerSetting.
In the end I was able to build my example. But at this point I already spent multiple days debugging problems that are unrelated to my applicationn or the Swift language.
It's a shame because I see its potential. Fixing the (linux/windows) tooling problems would probably only take "some" developers. Apple has near infinite money and could sponsor them if they wanted to., but they gain little by it. Besides them, not many are invested in it.
- What to choose next? My company wants me to learn new stack. iOS Dev with 8 years of exp.
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Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
Also look at: Hummingbird https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird Smoke https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework Swift NIO https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
- Hummingbird, the Swift server framework, hits v1.0
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What is the backend of apps?
Hummingbird is probably the fastest/lightest backend. You can switch to it after mastering Vapor's Fluent ORM.
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Suggestions for a back-end service
I'm using Hummingbird hooked up to MongoDB with Vapor Fluent. I declared input/output structs that I share to the client code via a library. All my core business logic sits on the server. I can cache the structs client side on sqlite.
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vapor and react integration
If you don't need all the features of vapor, you can just use Fluent's ORM and Hummingbird. The documentation and code examples are more up to date.
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Alchemy - Elegant, batteries included web framework for Swift!
Another Devil's Advocate: Why would I choose it over Hummingbird? https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird
What are some alternatives?
swift-gui - A framework for creating cross-platform GUI applications with Swift.
Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
SwiftUI-Kit - A SwiftUI system components and interactions demo app
async-http-client - HTTP client library built on SwiftNIO
SwiftWebUI - A demo implementation of SwiftUI for the Web
alchemy - Modern, batteries included web framework for Swift.
DL4S - Accelerated tensor operations and dynamic neural networks based on reverse mode automatic differentiation for every device that can run Swift - from watchOS to Linux
swift-collections - Commonly used data structures for Swift
qlift - Swift library to use Qt
NoMansCanvas - Jyväskylä University project - A clone of /r/place
smoke-framework - A light-weight server-side service framework written in the Swift programming language.