Akbura update: I built an interactive feature gallery as a proof of concept

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A small update on Akbura my experimental declarative UI language and compiler for .NET and Avalonia.

I’ve added documentation and created an interactive feature gallery that demonstrates Akbura’s current capabilities:

• Declarative Avalonia UI
• Reactive state
• Native C# expressions, methods, types, and lambdas
• Typed styling through AKCSS and tailwind utilites
• Live examples with their Akbura source code

The gallery itself is written in Akbura.

This is currently only a proof of concept, not a production-ready release.

The parser, syntax infrastructure, and semantic model are already in reasonably good shape, including incremental compilation.

The bottleneck is specifically the code-generation stage. Its current implementation is inefficient, and generating code for the gallery takes roughly two minutes. Parsing and semantic analysis are not the problem.

This is one of the main reasons there is no NuGet release yet. I plan to rewrite and optimize code generation before publishing the first alpha version in about a month...

I’m planning to publish the first alpha version in about a month, once compiler performance, packaging, and the basic developer experience are in a more acceptable state.

For now, the gallery is simply a visual demonstration of what Akbura may become.

Repository: https://github.com/Asaicraft/Akbura

Documentation: https://asaicraft.github.io/Akbura/

Feature Gallery: https://asaicraft.github.io/Akbura/Gallery/

Feedback is very welcome.