Swift language migration feasibility study

dsward2 / macSVG

macSVG - An open-source macOS app for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view ➤➤➤

http://macsvg.org/

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Swift language migration feasibility study #1

Open dsward2 opened 7 years ago

dsward2 commented 7 years ago

This project will evaluate Swift for these functions, currently implemented with Objective-C:

Cocoa plug-in architecture
WebKit delegate methods
WebKitInterface.mm
Eliminate plugin-to-app callback interface, and allow plugins to directly call into host application with Xcode build option: CLANG_ALLOW_NON_MODULAR_INCLUDES_IN_FRAMEWORK_MODULES = YES

Emasoft commented 7 years ago

Please, migrate every part of this awesome project to Swift!

inlinecoder commented 7 years ago

WHY would you want to migrate macSVG to Swift? WHAT are benefits migrating?

Not a Swift-coder here, but a man who has a least some experience with iOS\macOS development (I have my apps on AppStore, on both iOS and macOS platforms).

inlinecoder commented 7 years ago

Would it be easier and much more future-proof to minimize Cocoa\Objective-C code and replace with something like React or Angular and rely on WKWebView (yes, WKWebView)? That's quite easy to make macSVG to look and behave like a native macOS app with all nice blurs and so on.

With that you'll be able to reduce load on a Obj-C/JS bridge. Other benefits are obvious.

cramhead commented 6 years ago

Would this ObjectiveC2Swift be helpful?