DarwinKit 0.5.0 Released with Major Changes and Improvements
After a year of preview, MacDriver 0.5.0 is finally released, and from this version, the project is 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 in mac development applications. In contrast, version 0.4.0 only covered about 80 classes
- Currently implemented 23,800 methods / properties and nearly 10,000 constants / enumerations. Previously there were less than 50 constants
- Since the preview version was released, 543 structs have been implemented
- Automatic conversion and the use of native Go built-in types such as strings, bools, [] byte and maps etc.
- Supports block parameters as Go functions (callbacks) with correct type parameters
- Built-in delegate implementation, developers can simply use Go functions
- Has more 1-to-1 mapping with Objective-C symbol names, while improving the adaptability of Go usage habits
- Improved all symbols documentation, including the link to the official Apple documentation of this symbols
- Uses Objective-C memory management simple model
- Prepares to support more platforms such as iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS
- Continues to support Intel and Apple Silicon
- Almost generated all bindings
In addition, v0.5.0-preview has a regression problem that has occurred since the release of a newer version of Go, which is related to linker warnings, and this problem is an upstream problem in cgo,the DarwinKit team said hoping to solve this problem in the upcoming Go version. At the same time, they saidfuture version releases will not have such a long preview period of half a year.
It is worth looking forward to that the team has also verified that it can start using purego instead of cgo to improve the build speed, and will be applied in the next version's key aspect of function binding.
Details can be viewed in the release information: