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Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux, not an emulator, it's like wine but for MacOS apps.

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[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 91 points 11 months ago (6 children)

for those not familiar, this basically lets you run command line tools. anything with a GUI will not work.

[–] Limeey@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everything starts somewhere, but I wonder what macOS cli’s are the target for this tool that doesn’t have a Linux equivalent

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 32 points 11 months ago

CLI's are likely not specifically the target. I suspect the CLI is just the "low hanging fruit" and core set of software that needs to be supported before you build up to a fully functional GUI apps.

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