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Some more hints at what’s in it in the technical release notes:

https://gitee.com/openharmony/docs/blob/master/en/release-no...

Looks they have added a new JS UI framework at os level. Probably to replace Android eventually.

Going pure JS (rather than Android Java or something else) I think will be a big plus for developer adaption.

If I'm not mistaken java can still be used according to the HarmonyOS developer documentation. Hope they will add a wasm runtime in the future. Might be interesting to see how a third non western eco system will develop over the year.

But they should release their sdk in the west soon so people might start tinkering.

There is some stuff here:

https://gitee.com/openharmony/docs/tree/master/docker

What exactly is a bit unclear and I don't know why it is inside the docs repository.

I just saw they released their SDK and DevEco intellij clone for people outside of China.

I am very curious about their JS based UI framework (that is referenced in their 2.0 canary release notes). Have you seen anything on this? (Examples etc.)

I think its described over here in the docs:

https://developer.harmonyos.com/en/docs/documentation/doc-gu...

It appears to be documented here:

https://gitee.com/openharmony/docs/tree/master/en/applicatio...

Some example code here:

https://gitee.com/openharmony/docs/blob/master/en/applicatio...

Apparently made very web like with ui layouts described in hml Huawei markup language rather than html.

Also lots of low level access - you can query the temperature of the battery via one of the apis.

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