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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 26 points 11 months ago

I've been hoping this project makes significant progress for the last few years to run GUI apps. unfortunately it's been slow as there's not as much interest in getting Mac apps to run on Linux as there is with WINE. that said, I don't fault them, it's a daunting task and wine has the benefit of three decades of progress under their belt.