NiblessMenu
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| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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objc-ast-experiments
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C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
Here's something similar by Garret Bass:
https://github.com/garettbass/oc
...I also experimented a bit with parsing macOS system headers via clang-ast-dump and then code-generating C and Zig APIs but that didn't get far:
https://github.com/floooh/objc-ast-experiments
...with a bit of effort and maybe using libclang instead of clang-ast-dump that's definitely feasible though.
I guess a similar approach is used by the official C++ bindings for Metal:
https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
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Show HN: C-ocoa, Write iOS/macOS apps in any language, with a generated C API
This is basically also what the "official" C++ API for Metal does (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/), it's an automatically generated bindings wrapper which calls into ObjC runtime functions.
I also dabbled a bit with this idea by parsing clang AST-dumps of macOS system headers:
https://github.com/floooh/objc-ast-experiments
Unfortunately this is very brittle, and also broke on ARM CPUs, I guess the shim code needs some ABI adjustments (famously, objc_msgSend has multiple "ABI shapes": https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...).
NiblessMenu
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C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
This app uses objc_msgSend, which feels a lot like cheating, but if you simply want to avoid using nibs (while still using Objective-C or Swift), check out my NiblessMenu project and my "Working without a nib" blog series.
https://github.com/lapcat/NiblessMenu
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/working-without-a-nib-pa...
What are some alternatives?
metal-cpp - Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.
windy - Windowing library for Nim using OS native APIs.