DarwinKit 0.5.0 Released with Major Changes and Improvements

After a year of preview, MacDriver 0.5.0 was finally released, and from this version on, the project was renamed DarwinKit.

DarwinKit 0.5.0 Released with Major Changes and Improvements_0

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., are implemented in the API.
  • Supports 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 adaptability of Go usage habits.
  • Improved all symbols documentation, including the link to the official Apple documentation of this symbols.
  • Uses the simple model of Objective-C memory management.
  • Prepares to support more platforms, such as iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
  • Continues to support Intel and Apple Silicon.
  • Nearly generated all bindings.

In addition, v0.5.0-preview had a regression problem since the release of a newer version of Go, which is related to linker warnings, and this is an upstream problem in cgo,the DarwinKit team said they hope this problem can be solved 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 also verified that it can start to use purego instead of cgo to improve the build speed and will apply it in the next version's key aspect of function bindings.

For details, you can check the release information:

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