Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux, not an emulator, it’s like wine but for MacOS apps.
Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux, not an emulator, it’s like wine but for MacOS apps.
for those not familiar, this basically lets you run command line tools. anything with a GUI will not work.
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I’ve been hoping this project makes significant progress for the last few years to run GUI apps. unfortunately it’s been slow as there’s not as much interest in getting Mac apps to run on Linux as there is with WINE. that said, I don’t fault them, it’s a daunting task and wine has the benefit of three decades of progress under their belt.
Yet.
Everything starts somewhere, but I wonder what macOS cli’s are the target for this tool that doesn’t have a Linux equivalent
CLI’s are likely not specifically the target. I suspect the CLI is just the “low hanging fruit” and core set of software that needs to be supported before you build up to a fully functional GUI apps.
Seeing how the majority of CLI apps available on the Mac are ported over from Linux in the first place, what is even the point?
the point is to be able to run many macOS apps, unfortunately they have to crawl (get CLI apps working) before they can run (get normal GUI apps working).