Native Twitch App Built with SwiftUI and C++ Interop: A Deep Dive into Kulve's Tech Stack

Kulve is a native Twitch application built using SwiftUI and C++ interoperability, leveraging Swift 5.9's features for a cross-platform, high-performance experience. The backend utilizes CMake and VSCode for development, ensuring cross-platform compatibility, while the frontend employs Xcode and SwiftUI for the UI. C++ handles low-level tasks like threading, asynchronous networking, and runtime, while Swift focuses on UI rendering. The article details a clever memory management scheme using Swift wrappers around raw C++ pointers to prevent leaks and boost performance, enabling Kulve to efficiently handle large datasets, such as embedding databases within chat messages.