macdriver

Native Mac APIs for Go. Soon to be renamed DarwinKit! (by progrium)

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macdriver reviews and mentions

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  • Are there native bindings for native UI development with Go? Window, GTK, MacOS
    7 projects | /r/golang | 10 Nov 2021
  • Towards the Personal Potential of Software
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2021
    The first big release of the year was the macdriver project, which got a significant response on Hacker News. It gives us Objective-C and Apple framework bindings for Go, letting you build simple Apple apps entirely from Go. That wasn't possible before, so it was a little exciting, but it was early. The native Go APIs included for commonly used Foundation and Cocoa classes were far from complete. They could still be used if you knew what you were doing, but with an ideal of total coverage of Apple frameworks, that wouldn't be enough. There were also unresolved issues just deciding how to best manage memory and pointers, which I knew would fall on me to figure out and take some time.
  • Apple API schemas for code generation and more
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Apr 2021
    Even less common are schemas for non-web APIs. In 2016, Electron started releasing a JSON schema of all their APIs that allowed me to build a bridge to use Electron APIs from Go. I had that prototype in mind when I started the macdriver project that was released a couple months ago. Right now we're manually wrapping Apple framework classes with Go types so you can write native Apple platform applications that look like this:
  • Customize your computer screen with HTML
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2021
    It started as a demo for macdriver, but over the last week or so I've been making a standalone version. 90% of that time was playing around with it while trying to make demos.
  • Native Mac APIs for Go
    1 project | /r/osx | 13 Feb 2021
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 13 Feb 2021
    1 project | /r/golang | 5 Feb 2021
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 4 Feb 2021
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 4 Feb 2021
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2021
    Done https://github.com/progrium/macdriver/issues/12
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progrium/macdriver is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of macdriver is Go.


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