Support Harmony OS

[lamb]

Harmony OS is big in China by Huawei.
Are there plans to support Harmony OS?

[dfabulich]

My understanding is that Harmony OS 4 can run Android apps (and so Skip apps will probably just work on Harmony OS 4, the same as any other Android app), but Harmony OS 5 and higher does its own thing that has nothing to do with Android. (Some kinda TypeScript thing…? It's nothing like Android Compose.)

Skip's main feature is SkipUI, a reimplementation of SwiftUI based on Jetpack Compose. Jetpack Compose doesn't work on Harmony OS 5, and so it's unlikely that it will ever make sense for Skip to support the latest Harmony OS.

[lamb]

HarmonyOS is developed using ArkTS and ArkUI. Is it possible to translate Swift and SwiftUI into ArkTS and ArkUI through implementation? I really want to try.
Both ArkUI and SwiftUI are quite similar in being declarative, and it seems that the translation is simpler than Jetpack Compose (Kotlin). The Cangjie language is still in experimental stage, and Cangjie is more similar to Swift than Ark

[dfabulich]

Any translation is possible in principle, but I think you’ll get very little benefit from any of the code in the Skip repositories, other than inspiration for code you could write.

I guess you’d start by writing a transpiler from Swift to TS. You could take a look at Skip’s code, learn a bit from it, and start again, pretty much from scratch, to write a TS transpiler.

[lamb]

Great, I'll try it out.