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Show HN: Diez – open-source framework and compiler for design languages

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65 pointszackbrown14 comments

Diez is created & maintained by a YC company, Haiku (W18)

The Haiku team's mission is to "revolutionize the way teams create software, by unifying design & code."

In talking with our users, we recognized a huge unmet need in delivering a consistent visual identity across codebases — while embracing native platforms.

To that end, we spent the last year creating and iterating on Diez: a developer toolkit for expressing design languages in TypeScript, and a cross-platform native compiler targeting native iOS, Android, and Web: with a focus on native-developer ergonomics and scalability.

Now finally today: Diez is open source on GitHub. You can get started at https://diez.org

Any questions? Feedback? Please share!

Awesome product! Do you have any testimonials you can share?

Here's one from an engineer at McKinsey: https://twitter.com/breakingpixels/status/119648902268574515...

Working to gather more!

The figma integration currently appears to require logging into beta.diez.org, but I cannot find any sign up option anywhere. Is this feature not available yet?

Everything lives publicly on diez.org now.

There are a few places we need to update beta.diez.org => diez.org in our codebase & messaging. The beta site existed for our private beta. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

For now, until we update the urls: you can just manually remove 'beta.';

Beta URLs fixed: https://github.com/diez/diez/pull/7/files

This looks very cool. I really appreciate work that went into this.

Since I work on a design system component library, I will organize a presentation of Diez for developers and designers to sit through together. I can see how this can be useful, we are already coding some of the rules, but this would integrate us on a whole new level. It does require a commitment from everyone that might be hard to get in a big corporation.

Thanks so much! Totally understood about the challenges of getting all the right folks to buy in on a large team. I'm here to help.

Would you like me to join your presentation by video call for a demo and Q&A? Also happy to swing by in person in the Bay Area. Just let me know: zack@diez.org

First, thank you for offering. We are in Chicago and I already did a presentation for wider team and it was really well received. I think it is perfect case for us and what we are doing.

Since you offered, I will hit you up from my corporate email and we can continue chatting there.

> A design language also known as design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products or architectural settings.

Diez is definitly an enterprise product. One day I hope I need this ;-)

Hey, I hope so too! Hit us up when you're there :)

This team is incredibly strong. I had the chance of hanging with them for an afternoon at their office and was blown away by their humility and knowledge.

FYI when I navigate to Learn > Guides, the first letter of each row is cut off. https://imgur.com/a/vMR6erq

Thank you very much for pointing this! we'll fix it soon.

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