DarwinKit 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 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 / 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
- Support 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 links to the official Apple documentation of this symbols
- Use Objective-C simple model of memory management
- Prepare to support more platforms such as iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS
- Continue 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, related to linker warnings, which is an upstream problem in cgo, the DarwinKit team said hoping that 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.
Details can be viewed in the release information: