lucent
Write React Native native modules in TypeScript. Lucent compiles a checked subset to C++ and calls it through JSI: no Swift or Kotlin to write, and no JavaScript engine in native code.
Details
- External ID
- 1380380763
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- lucent
- Website domain
- lucent-lang.dev
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5446451447604407
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- typescript to c++ compiler for react native native modules
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing an AOT/transpiler compiler that maps a TypeScript subset into C++ and React Native JSI bindings requires advanced compiler design and deep React Native C++ internals knowledge.
What it would actually take: Requires building an AST parser/type-checker (using SWC or Babel/TypeScript compiler APIs) that transforms a strongly-typed TypeScript subset into idiomatic C++ code. The backend must synthesize boilerplate for React Native's JSI (JavaScript Interface), managing memory bridging, object lifecycles, and cross-platform native thread synchronization.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #61 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
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