alt Hacker NewsI see aot if these kinda of links to GitHub repositories with the user obviously keen on showing people, but they then describe what it is / does using specialist / domain language which can make it quite hard to get just what it is I'm looking at, or what I can do with it, and where / why it would be useful. I do wish people would consider their audience after posting 'look at this thing' links, and that people might not quite be as familiar with acronyms and domain specific terminology without a bit more of a plain speaking background description as to what is being shown off! Maybe even some screenshots too.
I mean, I can follow ops intent to a general degree, it sounds interesting, but ..
> I mean, I can follow ops intent to a general degree, it sounds interesting, but ..
Thanks for trying to meet me halfway. I hope I can bridge the gap.
The repository is the codebase for a GUI toolkit. It runs ruby scripts that make use of a custom templating language (like html), and a super class that provides similar component technology you'd likely find in vue or react. (Hokusai::Block).
When the ruby script is run from the binary built from the codebase (hokusai-pocket), it spawns a window with your application. There are releases for x86 linux, windows, and osx - and also arm64 linux. You just write your application, and run it with `hokusai-pocket run:target=app.rb`
The hokusai-pocket binary also include a command for publishing your application as a standalone binary for different platforms, but I'm currently working on that.
So all in all, it is a gui toolkit + runner that you can download for x86 linux, windows, and osx to dynamically run desktop applications.
I mentioned cutting its teeth on a photoshop clone. Here's a screenshot: https://file.skinnyjames.net/demo.gif