MacDriver 0.5.0 Released with Major Updates
After a year of preview, MacDriver 0.5.0 has finally been released, and from this version on, 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.
- Automatic conversion and use of native Go built-in types, such as strings, bools, [] byte and maps etc. are implemented in the API.
- Supports block parameters as Go functions (callbacks) with 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.
- Uses Objective-C simple model of memory management.
- 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 had a regression problem since the release of a newer version of Go, related to linker warning, which 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 expecting that the team has also verified that it 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 binding.
Details can be viewed in the release information: