Run macOS Software on Linux

	Run macOS Software on Linux(darlinghq.org)
	277 points by Bluestein 9 days ago \| 85 comments
	tl;dr: Darling is an open-source translation layer that runs macOS software on Linux, analogous to what Wine does for Windows apps. It implements a complete Darwin environment (Mach, dyld, launchd) without hardware emulation, and now has basic experimental support for GUI applications. It's built partly from Apple's open-source Darwin code alongside projects like The Cocotron and GNUstep, and also works under WSL 2.
	HN Discussion: ↑Acknowledges the project's foundations and related open-source lineage like Apportable and GNUstep ~Interesting but limited in scope - only x86_64, slow updates, and can't run macOS framework apps ↓Questions the practical value since there's little compelling Mac-exclusive software worth running •Shares related tangential experiments like reverse-direction Linux-on-Mac syscall translation ↑macOS binaries suffer severe bit rot making preservation efforts like this especially valuable