In theory, running Apple Silicon apps on ARM64 linux machines would be really nice. But we are still far from having a performant and feature-complete implementation of doing so.
Darling only targets x86_64 stuff. Still, it's a cool project.
Kinda sad that there are very few updates though [1]
Quibble: it'll run anything that runs on open source Darwin. You won't be running anything needing macOS frameworks.
rvz 30 minutes ago [-]
This is the Darling project which aims to run macOS software on Linux for both Intel and ARM64.
But you are probably looking for this:
> Does it support GUI apps?
> Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications.
It is still far away from running your favorite mac GUI apps like Logic Pro or Xcode, but it is a work in progress but can still run command line tools.
dylan604 20 minutes ago [-]
What allows Wine to run so many Windows apps that there's not an equivalent for MacOS? Is it lack of interest? Is it a technical thing? I'd even be willing to limit to x86 apps. Or maybe there is and I'm just really out of touch??
tengwar2 14 minutes ago [-]
At a guess: the "killer apps" are things like MS Office and Photoshop, and since they are usually available on both Windows and Mac, there's not such a pressing demand to support similar functionality for Mac apps if the Windows version is easy to obtain.
dylan604 6 minutes ago [-]
That's such an obvious answer that I'm honestly embarrassed that it did not occur to me. <facepalm> Thanks for not rubbing it in!
GeekyBear 4 minutes ago [-]
GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs.
A lot of work by various companies and people who had various different motivations to work on the compatibility. With CodeWeavers and Valve support, they had a monetary incentive.
It's also been around since 1993.
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HNDevsSuck 40 minutes ago [-]
What macOS software
luqtas 16 minutes ago [-]
garageBand /j
wetpaws 34 minutes ago [-]
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Darling only targets x86_64 stuff. Still, it's a cool project.
Kinda sad that there are very few updates though [1]
[1] https://blog.darlinghq.org/
But you are probably looking for this:
It is still far away from running your favorite mac GUI apps like Logic Pro or Xcode, but it is a work in progress but can still run command line tools.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep
It's also been around since 1993.