{"slug": "show-hn-100-native-swift-harness-not-electron", "title": "Show HN: 100% native Swift harness (NOT Electron)", "summary": "A developer has released an open-source, 100% native Swift harness for macOS, claiming it is the first non-Electron alternative to tools like Cline, Codex, and Claude Code. The project, licensed under Apache 2.0, offers lower memory usage, end-to-end encryption via Trusted Router, and access to hundreds of models, including Deepseek. It also includes a compatibility layer to compile SwiftUI for Linux.", "body_md": "hi everybody, I’ve been working on this harness that is all native Swift for macOS.\n\nIt’s fully featured with every feature i could find in cline, codex, and claude code.\n\nThere is all swift command line too\n\nIt’s taking me a long, long time, a few months to build this, and it’s fully open source Apache 2 licensed.\n\nHoping people fork this and make many branches\n\nI’m looking for people who want to work on something that has much lower memory usage and much more potential to be just more efficient. Every other single harness has is written in using electron, so this harness is really unique in this way. It’s connected to trusted router so that it has end-to-end encryption confidential mode as well as access to hundreds of models, any model in the world. It works great with Deepseek. it’s great for swift development ios development.\n\nand for people who love Linux, I also made a compatibility layer that lets you compile SwiftUI into native Linux so that you either can new or QT actually so that you can just compile all the code directly and make it run on Linux\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243358](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243358)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-100-native-swift-harness-not-electron", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/Lore-Hex/QuillCode", "published_at": "2026-08-10 13:26:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 13:43:29.672930+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Swift", "macOS", "Cline", "Codex", "Claude Code", "Apache 2.0", "Trusted Router", "Deepseek"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-100-native-swift-harness-not-electron", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-100-native-swift-harness-not-electron.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-100-native-swift-harness-not-electron.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-100-native-swift-harness-not-electron.jsonld"}}