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more details here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/huaweis-harmonyos-wi...

Thanks - that seems more informative than the corporate page, so I've switched the URL from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/harmonyos/.

It is also kinda biased and just stuck at the old this just a copy of Android record.

For example the release notes mentions a new JS UI framework at the OS level with the potential to replace Android Java completely.

Had Google or Apple done this it would be sitting pretty on the hn front page for days.

Here it is just ignored in the politics of Huawei.

You could try submitting the documentation/demo page for that new JS UI framework.

I did submit this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27378926

Which has some example code - as I understand it the apps will look just like android apps.

Fancy! I don't understand who would in their right mind, except for web devs, prefer this to Kotlin + Compose.

I would use it.

There are just far more JavaScript developers out there than android Java/kotlin developers.

Also if you just distribute the js, the apps would get quite small, so maybe you no longer need an App Store with an explicit installation step but instead you could just browse the apps on the internet like you would browse web pages.

You may well be right; I don't know any of the details. The problem is that there don't seem to be any good URLs, by which I mean ones that would provide a good basis for objective, interesting discussion. Maybe one will turn up.

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