A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift

1. Swift Argument Parser

   1 5 3,518 8.5 Swift

   Straightforward, type-safe argument parsing for Swift

   

   Ha, nice! I've used the Swift shebang before, but honestly once you have something that works as a "script," it's so easy to convert it to a real command line utility via Swift Argument Parser [0] that I usually spend the 5 minutes to wrap it up.

     [0]: https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. swift-cross-ui

   2 8 1,048 9.5 Swift

   A cross-platform declarative UI framework, inspired by SwiftUI.

   

   As with other languages, you’d need bindings to another UI framework. In that sense, I wish SwiftUI had a different name because it seems intrinsic to Swift when it’s really no different than UIKit.

   There’s stuff like SwiftCrossUI that does multiple backend bindings

   https://github.com/stackotter/swift-cross-ui

   And Qt was exploring some bindings using the new C++ interoperability.

4. bootsharp

   3 7 736 7.0 C#

   Use C# in web apps with comfort

   

   C# does pretty well as far as WASM support goes, unlike Go which is abysmal :)

   https://bootsharp.com/guide/llvm / https://github.com/elringus/bootsharp

5. skip

   4 18 1,907 9.4 Swift

   Skip enables the creation of native SwiftUI apps for iOS and Android (by skiptools)

   

6. swift

   5 4 1,356 3.7 C++

   WebAssembly support for the Swift programming language (by swiftwasm)

   

   > It would be a long time until Swift is even remotely ready for something like this and I don’t feel there is a burning need to have “yet another wasm platform”.

   I mean, well, it actually does exist? It's been around for a long time and works pretty great, with multithreading, access to JS objects, etc.

   https://swiftwasm.org/

7. Shaft

   6 2 424 8.8 Swift

   A cross-platform GUI framework for Swift, built for demanding workloads and developer ergonomics

   

   There’s also Shaft, which is Flutter ported to Swift:

   https://github.com/ShaftUI/Shaft

   Like Flutter, this paints everything itself. It doesn’t need to bind to a UI framework directly. Instead, it needs the platform to provide primitives like a surface to draw into and input events.

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