Darling is a cool project but I think the reason it hasn’t taken off is because there isn’t a lot of software people both want to use on Linux and software that isn’t already covered by wine. You need an overlap between those 2 and that’s a small market
Yeah, I just think that maybe, just maybe, if MacOS is also inspired by UNIX, making a compat layer is not that big of a difference. Because MacOS supports a lot of productivity programs that may attract professionals to Linux too. Mostly adobe suite.
The problem with that thought is the lower level bits are very *nix but all the higher level bits like the GUI and other surrounding APIs are all heavily Objective-C/NextStep based and aren’t really all that unixy. We do have GNUStep as a base to use for that to an extent but I really don’t think the unix parts of Mac, are that helpful to porting complex user facing GUI programs.
Darling is a cool project but I think the reason it hasn’t taken off is because there isn’t a lot of software people both want to use on Linux and software that isn’t already covered by wine. You need an overlap between those 2 and that’s a small market
Yeah, I just think that maybe, just maybe, if MacOS is also inspired by UNIX, making a compat layer is not that big of a difference. Because MacOS supports a lot of productivity programs that may attract professionals to Linux too. Mostly adobe suite.
The problem with that thought is the lower level bits are very *nix but all the higher level bits like the GUI and other surrounding APIs are all heavily Objective-C/NextStep based and aren’t really all that unixy. We do have GNUStep as a base to use for that to an extent but I really don’t think the unix parts of Mac, are that helpful to porting complex user facing GUI programs.