# About me and libyue

## Meeting libyue

I can no longer remember exactly when I first learned of this library — I only recall hunting for a GUI library in the `Nodejs` world at the time. The library was usable from Nodejs but honestly not pleasant to use; I never put it to work, yet the name `Yue` / `libyue` stayed with me — after all, its author is [Cheng Zhao (zcbenz)](https://github.com/zcbenz), a major contributor to the famous [Electron](https://github.com/electron/electron) project.

## Trying libyue

Once I knew of it, its cross-platform capability and lightweight character kept it on my mind. Over the years I tried, back and forth, to put the library to daily use via `yode` and via `lua`, without success — there was no AI assistance back then the way there is now, and yode and lua each had their own inherent drawbacks.

## Bringing libyue together

This year, while browsing [Chen Suiyi](https://github.com/chensuiyi2)'s public account, I noticed he was using MoonBit, a new language. So I learned a bit about MoonBit through Liang Sheng's DS and found the language simple, lightweight, not slow, with quite good FFI compatibility and performance — and with the GLM Coding Plan I had opened at the start of the year still unexpired, AI emboldened me: I rode MoonBit's official September hackathon to start this `moonbit-libyue` project.