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John · 2w
Sounds exciting but it's a lot of words without explaining what it really is. What will it look like in practice?
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You work on a visual canvas, but underneath the design is.elyx file. That’s the real magic here. It is a plain text file. A bit like CSS - describing components, layouts, tokens, etc.

Those files can live alongside your code. You can use git, review changes, compare diffs, use your own AI tools, or build tools around. Some people have already made tools to animate .elyx designs. A design project becomes much like any code project, you can organize and work with .elyx without Elyx app.

This makes it easier for everyone to work on a project. Designers, developers, and agents can collaborate much better. Designers edit visually, while developers and agents can read and edit the same files directly. Now, because those files describe the design without tying it to a particular framework you can use them to translate designs to whatever software stack you are using for your project.
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John · 1w
Thanks for the thorough explanation! Sounds like it standardizes UI design into code. So is the text file written in a new language called Elyx? If yes, is this because the elyx fiels have to be translated into various different programming languages for development?