So you haven't heard of Kotlin Multiplatform.
What are your experiences of using Kotlin for modern macOS/iOS development? How's the support looking when Apple releases new XCode?
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privacyis1mp commented on Apple is open sourcing Swift Build swift.org/blog/the-next-c... · Posted by u/dayanruben
> people familiar with macos or ios development who want to write for other platforms.
This is a rather small userbase when it comes to enterprise.
Especially because Swift will never be as versatile as Python or as efficient as Rust.
And then there's also Go, C# and Kotlin with much better tooling.
Xcode gives me such a hard time that I started considering writing in Kotlin for macOS, just to have a normal IDE. We used to have AppCode (from JetBrains) and it was great. I wonder why Apple didn't support JetBrains, after all, it would have been to Apple's benefit.
privacyis1mp commented on Show HN: A macOS Client for HuggingFace Chat github.com/huggingface/ch... · Posted by u/archiv
Congrats! I noticed it was initially closed-source and now it's opened, nice! Is it a project funded by HuggingFace? (Not immediately clear to me).
I've built a macOS assistant too (more advanced though), with focus on privacy and easy of use (https://getfluid.app). I'd love to open-source it, but not sure about sustainability of such business model. Right now I'm experimenting with a fully private paid Llama hosting (for GPU poors).
Good luck :)
I'm interested, but I can't find any documentation for it. Can I give it local content (documents, spreadsheets, code, etc.) and ask questions?
> Can I give it local content (documents, spreadsheets, code, etc.)
It's coming roughly in December (may be sooner).
Roadmap is following:
- October - private remote AI (when you need smarter AI than your machine can handle, but don't want your data to be logged or stored anywhere)
- November - Web search capabilities (so the AI will be capable of doing websearch out of the box)
- December - PDF, docs, code embedding. 2025 - tighter MacOS integration with context awareness.
For anyone who hasn't tried local models because they think it's too complicated or their computer can't handle it, download a single llamafile and try it out in just moments.
https://future.mozilla.org/builders/news_insights/introducin...
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
They even have whisperfiles now, which is the same thing but for whisper.cpp, aka real-time voice transcription.
You can also take this a step further and use this exact setup for a local-only co-pilot style code autocomplete and chat using Twinny. I use this every day. It's free, private, and offline.
https://github.com/twinnydotdev/twinny
Local LLMs are the only future worth living in.
I built Fluid app exactly with that in mind. You can run local AI on mac without really knowing what an LLM/ollama is. Plug&Play.
Sorry for the blatant ad, though I do hope it's useful for some ppl reading this thread: https://getfluid.app
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