DarwinKit 0.5.0 Released with Major Updates
After a year of preview, MacDriver 0.5.0 was finally released, and from this version on, the project was renamed DarwinKit.
The main changes in this version are as follows:
- Added bindings to 33 frameworks.
- There are currently more than 2,300 classes, almost completely covering all situations of mac development applications. In contrast, version 0.4.0 only covered about 80 classes.
- Currently implemented 23,800 methods / attributes and nearly 10,000 constants / enums. Previously, there were less than 50 constants.
- Since the preview version was released, 543 structs have been implemented.
- Automatic conversion and use of native Go built-in types such as strings, bools, [] byte and maps etc. were implemented in the API.
- Supported block parameters as Go functions (callbacks) with the correct type parameters.
- Built-in delegate implementation, developers can simply use Go functions.
- More 1-to-1 mapping with Objective-C symbol names, while improving the adaptation of Go usage habits.
- Improved all symbols documentation, including the link to the official Apple documentation of this symbols.
- Used Objective-C simple model of memory management.
- Prepared to support more platforms such as iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS.
- Continued to support Intel and Apple Silicon.
- Almost generated all bindings.
In addition,
DarwinKit team said that linker warning related to a regression problem that occurred since the release of a newer version of Go in v0.5.0-preview, which is an upstream problem in cgo. They hope this problem can be solved in the upcoming Go version. At the same time, they said that the release of future versions will not have such a long preview period of half a year.
It is worth looking forward to that the team also verified that it is possible to start using purego instead of cgo to improve the build speed and will apply it in the next version's key aspect of function binding.
Details can be viewed in the release information: