Exciting new milestone for Blueprint support in Workbench
It's like those 2 were made for each others !
Technical details; the first prototype was spawning the blueprint-compiler on every change – which would take ~ 700ms to update the real time preview.
I am now using the blueprint language server as a long-running sub-process using the stdio transport and only sending the new text on change.
https://github.com/sonnyp/Workbench/issues/3
https://gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/blueprint-compiler/-/merge_requests/33
And since Blueprint ships a language server - we can even get auto-completion, hints and so on !
Very cool @flyingpimonster
@sonny Thanks! It's awesome to see Blueprint in action.
@sonny Oh, I was just thinking about this project yesterday!
Suggesting that GTK + Blueprint + GJS provides webdevs pretty much everything they like about the web platform. Thanks for your work!
@sonny this feels like flutter but better, I need gtk but for android 
@sonny TIL about Blueprint, it looks neat. Thanks for mentioning it!
@sonny also in my backlog there's “try Workbench” after I saw it mentioned in TWIM a couple of times.
@sonny looks amazing!
@sonny interesting how similar the syntax of Blueprint is to QML.
Definitely! It feels like we finally has a better counterpart to QtQuick.
@sonny That's so cool!
How stable is Blueprint at the moment, by the way?
I would be soo excited to use this in my projects!
@fortressia works great – here is a list of apps making use of it https://gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/blueprint-compiler/-/merge_requests/32/diffs
It also has a very convenient and easy to use porting tool. Check the doc.
There are a couple of things missing but not blockers for me.
@sonny why are there lines obfuscating the text on the left?
@smoldesu sorry I don't know what you mean, could you take a screenshot ?
GTK XML is fine for RAD tools (Glade, Cambalache , ...) but way too verbose and with too many levels of indentation for hand-writing.
I'm excited to see where Blueprint goes