Jack Curran wrote: > Nobody III wrote: > > I would love to see VSCodium and/or Kate ported to Genode. > > Yes I would love to see VSCodium ported to Genode. I had briefly considered > > trying to do it myself using Goa, but I feel like it would be outside my > > skill level currently. Although I may try at some point and see if I can > > make any progress on it. > To port VSCodium to Genode would mean to first port Electron which is the web > app container that VSCodium runs in. It’s really just a small web browser > which is running as an IDE. The VSCodium GUI front-end is JavaScript I > believe. > The focus should first be porting Electron to Genode, then once that is done, > VSCodium would only be little extra work I believe. > Porting Electron would also open up avenues for other applications that > utilise Electron. Gnome Web, AKA Epiphany, the independent Web Kit based > browser runs in electron which would mean we could also potentially port > Gnome Web/Epiphany to Genode. It is really the only independent FOSS browser > other than Chromium or Firefox currently. Ladybird won’t even be in Alpha > till at least 2026 as stated on their website.
Electron is written in C++ so it looks like porting it to Genode may not be so hard? https://github.com/electron/electron As far as I can tell, VSCode is just a lot of Typescript code running inside of electron: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.genode.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.genode.org Archived at https://lists.genode.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@lists.genode.org/message/2A3XZTPU5GAUGS66TH7GQZULDJ5C2TCS/
