[da39a3ee]

> having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y

It's an HTTP client. The client codebase is here:

https://github.com/httpie/cli

Why everyone is getting their knickers in a massive twist because they have an Electron wrapper that they haven't open sourced is mystifying.

I haven't studied the codebase but I highly doubt they are going to have a separate client implementation for the Electron product vs the CLI! They're just trying to create a nice Electron client, in addition to their well-known CLI, and start a business around it aren't they?

[jkbr]

We started httpie/desktop as a separate codebase but are working on unifying it with httpie/cli and our cloud to avoid multiple implementations by extracting a shared runtime that will be used everywhere. One of the interesting challenges here is that HTTPie Desktop is written in TypeScript while the rest is in Python.

[da39a3ee]

Thanks, of course, that makes sense. How are you planning on doing it -- use a language like Rust that can easily be called from both and packaged? Or rewrite the CLI in Typescript?

[jkbr]

We have a PoC where the runtime is implemented in Python and the Electron and web apps use it through https://pyodide.org/. Still exploring but looks surprisingly viable.