Goodnotes brings its Swift-powered note-taking app to the web using WebAssembly
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Apple Inc.
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Summary
Goodnotes, the award-winning iPad note-taking app, has successfully ported its Swift codebase to run in web browsers via WebAssembly. This allows the same high-performance ink rendering and note-taking experience to work seamlessly across platforms while maintaining a single shared codebase. The article highlights Swift's capabilities as a cross-platform language for high-performance applications.
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Today, the same Swift code that powers our iOS app also runs seamlessly in web browsers through WebAssembly, delivering the exact same ink rendering and note-taking experience users love.
This journey demonstrates that Swift excels as a cross-platform language, running high-performance applications while sharing the same codebase.
Every bug fix and improvement to Goodnotes benefits all our users simultaneously, regardless of w
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