Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderHas anyone been able to use darling for iOS CI jobs yet? Admittedly I haven't researched this in a while, but one of the biggest hurdles in large scale iOS development is sane DevOps infrastructure. I know due to Apple's TOS that you will never be able to build, sign, and distribute your app on non-Apple hardware. But i'd love to use darling to run unit tests/CI jobs on commodity cloud infrastructure. Even if you do get dedicated mac instances…
I am hoping that with cross platform Swift we can start seeing more libraries to help us port Mac apps to Linux. I am a Mac developer but I'd love to make stuff available on Linux. I really like Linux as a backup plan, in case Apple totally drops the ball on professionals on the Mac. The Linux desktop is getting pretty good, but it lacks well designed high quality GUI applications. If porting to Linux was done easier that…
If this thing can run even just the Xcode command-line utilities, it'd be a huge asset for cross-platform projects, build automation, etc. Definitely keeping an eye on this!
> We use The Cocotron as a basis for our Cocoa implementation, along with the Apportable Foundation and various bits of GNUstep. My heart swells, I got to work at Apportable - super fond memories. .. was a YCombinator 2011 thing https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apportable
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 5
- Total points
- 2669
- Total comments
- 963
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-24 | Run unmodified macOS binaries on Linux | punnerud | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-11-02 | Darling – MacOS translation layer for LinuxFirst breakout | mikemoka | 630 | 265 |
| 2019-04-28 | Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux | pcr910303 | 300 | 174 |
| 2020-10-05 | Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux | lelf | 614 | 199 |
| 2022-01-05 | Darling – Run Mac apps on LinuxHall induction · Best thread | tomrod | 652 | 200 |
| 2023-08-21 | Darling – macOS Emulation Layer for Linux | notpushkin | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-11-26 | Darling: Run macOS Software on LinuxLatest 20+ point return | doener | 466 | 125 |