DarwinKit 0.5.0 Released with Major Updates
After one year of preview, MacDriver 0.5.0 has finally been released, and from this version onwards, the project is renamed DarwinKit.
The main changes in this version are as follows:
- Added bindings to 33 frameworks.
- There are currently over 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 / enums. Previously there were less than 50 constants.
- Since the preview version was released, 543 structs have been implemented.
- Automatically converted and used native Go built-in types in the API, such as strings, bools, [] byte and maps etc..
- Supported block parameters as Go functions (callbacks) with correct type parameters.
- Built-in delegate implementation, developers can simply use Go functions.
- Performed more 1-to-1 mappings 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.
- Used Objective-C memory management's simple model.
- 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, v0.5.0-preview had a regression problem since the release of a newer version of Go, related to linker warnings, which is an upstream problem in cgo,the DarwinKit team said hoping that this problem can be resolved 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 expecting that the team has also verified that they can start using purego instead of cgo to improve the build speed, and will apply it in the next version's key aspect of function bindings.
Details can be viewed in the release information: