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Hello, I was wondering if slint has plans to support any statically typed, high level languages such as swift, C#, Java etc. I think a lot of people, who want to use slint for desktop / mobile apps, will want to have a language that has reasonable performance and maintainability, but isn't a systems language like rust or c++, or a scripting language like JavaScript. I was just wondering if you had given any thought to that, or have plans already. |
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Our design very much supports adding bindings to statically typed languages. We do have bindings for C++ and Rust that sort of prove that. The effort required to do this includes writing a code generator in our compiler to generate Swift/C#/Java and implementing a run-time library in the target language that can create data structures the Slint run-time library requires, as well as to call into the C based low-level API of the Slint run-time library. We don't have any concrete/immediate plans to implement one of the above ourselves in the coming months though, but we're happy to guide anyone willing to work on it. |
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Ok, that's what I figured. Thanks for the info! Perhaps at some point I will have to give that a shot :) |
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A full C based API would be more useful as most high level languages has tools to take C headers and make wrappers. An example of this is Qt where most high level bindings use a simple C API. Also obviously C in itself is an important language. |
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Our design very much supports adding bindings to statically typed languages. We do have bindings for C++ and Rust that sort of prove that. The effort required to do this includes writing a code generator in our compiler to generate Swift/C#/Java and implementing a run-time library in the target language that can create data structures the Slint run-time library requires, as well as to call into the C based low-level API of the Slint run-time library.
We don't have any concrete/immediate plans to implement one of the above ourselves in the coming months though, but we're happy to guide anyone willing to work on it.