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Top 3 Swift Gtk Projects
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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SwiftGtk
A Swift wrapper around gtk-3.x and gtk-4.x that is largely auto-generated from gobject-introspection
Project mention: Framework for creating user interfaces for GNOME with an API similar to SwiftUI | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-01
For another SwiftUI-like wrapper, see also https://github.com/stackotter/swift-cross-ui (used by Adawaita to generate widgets, and mentioned in other comments).
The key premise of this approach is to provide a SwiftUI-like declarative wrapper around Gnome functionality. It's unclear what it adds over swift-cross-ui.
SwiftUI itself has growing pains mainly around being on the right thread for processing/updates and getting data binding right.
Blog entries on swift.org or from Apple tend to be little demos that show the happy path, but when discussing new frameworks (like a Gnome wrapper) or platforms (like the recent embedded), I'd like more demonstration that the authors understand and address key issues and will sustain development. Cross-platform UI frameworks get complicated quickly and have a long tail of issues (cf Flutter, Java/Eclipse, et al) that can be blockers for clients/users. For Swift it doesn't help to have multiple concurrency models and obviously different behaviors on apple platforms and Linux (where UI is not officially tested).
Swift Gtk related posts
- Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
- App to move and resize windows in Linux?
- Can you create applications for Ubuntu using Swift?
- What do you do in Swift on Ubuntu?
- Run SwiftUI from command line
- What’s everyone working on this month? (February 2021)
- Are they still making progress on Swift support in GNUstep, or has it been abandoned as I can only find discussion from years ago? What other options are typical for cross-platform GUI development with Swift, considering that SwiftUI is limited to Apple platforms?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Gtk projects in Swift? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | adwaita-swift | 641 |
2 | swift-cross-ui | 467 |
3 | SwiftGtk | 313 |