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A new generation of Cosmoe
has arrived

Cosmoe - building graphical apps reimagined

The newest iteration of Cosmoe is a C++ UI library for creating rich,
easy-to-code graphical apps for Wayland. It brings the benefits of
the BeOS class library onto a modern kernel and display engine.

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Cosmoe, like BeOS which inspired it, is designed with these goals in
mind:

  * Extremely easy-to-use GUI classes make for rapid app development
  * Highly multi-threaded for maximum performance on modern hardware
  * Very low resource usage

Technologies

Custom Programming

  * .Net
  * TypeScript/JavaScript
  * PHP
  * C/C++

Database

  * MySQL/MariaDB
  * Postgres
  * MSSQL

Website Design

  * WordPress
  * Craft
  * Bootstrap
  * Custom HTML/CSS

Graphic Design

  * PhotoShop
  * Premiere
  * After Effects
  * Illustrator

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Testimonials

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Saul Goodman

Ceo & Founder

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Sara Wilsson

Designer

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Store Owner

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Freelancer

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Entrepreneur

Portfolio

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  * Web

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Frequently Asked Questions

How can I try out Cosmoe?

Cosmoe is still a work in progress, and exists as a source-only
technology preview for now. To run it, clone or download the Cosmoe
source code repo from Gitlab and compile the code on your Linux
distribution of choice. There are several sample applications
included which demonstrate what it is capable of.

What are the plans for Cosmoe going forward?

Cosmoe needs 2 main improvements to be a reliable, full-featured UI
library:

Stability
While I've made incredible strides with getting the BeOS class
libraries to talk to Wayland, much work still remains to weed out
crashes and incorrect behavior. Wayland is powerful, but not
friendly.

Compatibility
Cosmoe implements about 95% of the BeOS API currently. Notable
feature that are not yet implemented include "offscreen" BBitmaps for
accelerated drawing, and BFilePanel which implements Open and Save
dialog boxes. Some file-related classes like BVolume are only
partially implemented. Also, for security reasons, Wayland forbids
certain Window-related actions such as window positioning and
centering, so that functionality can never exist.

For more details on this items and other in-progress aspects of
Cosmoe, please see the TODO file in the Cosmoe repo.

What license does Cosmoe use?

Cosmoe is distributed under the MIT license.

What source code comprises Cosmoe? Where did it come from, and what
inspired it?

Cosmoe is a fork of the Haiku operating system, which itself is an
open-source re-implementation of BeOS. The current iteration of
Cosmoe is implemented as a UI library, but the previous iteration
(now known as "Cosmoe Classic") was a full port of Haiku to the Linux
kernel.

How is the current iteration of Cosmoe different from Cosmoe Classic?

The current iteration of Cosmoe is a shared library which implements
the BeOS class library on top of Wayland. There are no supporting
programs, e.g. app_server or registrar, needed to use it. All the
necessary functionality is rolled into the library. Apps linked with
the library run natively on Linux via Wayland.
The previous iteration of Cosmoe (now known as "Cosmoe Classic") is a
full port of the Haiku OS to the Linux kernel. It runs inside an SDL
window on Linux. It would be possible to develop graphics drivers to
allow it to run as its own standalone Linux-based OS, but those have
not been developed.
Moving forward, my focus is on the shared library version since I
believe it has the most practical benefit.