TheMaker

I'm redesigning Silk's page for the thousandth time and asked Claude to put this section together. It's crazy to me how far Silk has come in such a short time.

LOOK LOOK LOOK - GPU-accelerated UI framework similar to GPUI - Works on Mac, Linux, Windows, and on the Web with WebGPU - Fully compliant SVG rendering, including ANIMATED SVG - Fully compliant css Flexbox and Grid layout Every line of it written in Silk... Very low level api at the moment, but of course, @foldkit will be the first framework to be supported... Silk has an UI framework, a JS runtime, SVG rendering, font parsing, font shaping, Flexbox and Grid layout with better performance and better coverage than Yoga and Taffy, plus 260 modules on Silk's std lib, and a few other things I'm probably forgetting. I could be wrong, but all things considered, I think we are almost ready for Silk's alpha release 👀

Not just for interop, it’s a systems language first, inspired by the Effect model. That said, how other compilers deprioritize wasm/browser integration always bothered me. It amazes me that wasm has been out for almost a decade in all major browsers, and most compilers can’t even output a nice stack trace. (I’m complaining, but with all the respect in the world as someone that knows writing a compiler is a shit ton of work and choices have to be made)

writing a compiler is a sequence of : "Oooooh, thats why they did [thing that I hate in another language] this way"