cacao

This is really specific, but for this point in the article: > There’s a long guide on Embedding a Command-Line Tool in a Sandboxed App, so I followed that, and then slowly, painfully, factored Xcode out of it, so that I wouldn’t have to figure out how to get a 10GB Xcode install onto the CI machine (remember, you need to be signed in to an Apple ID to download Xcode, and there’s no way to do it from the command-line). You could actually solve this with Rust and no Xcode whatsoever. cacao [1] and cargo-bundle [2] will produce an app bundle you could sign/notarize/distribute without needing to ever open Xcode. [1] https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao [2] https://github.com/burtonageo/cargo-bundle You wouldn't need to tangle with Swift, would only need enough Rust to hoist whatever script you're trying to run. In general though I find the ar

This is seriously cool. I feel slightly validated that I've also been wrapping these by hand, since it's kind of quirky to try and auto-generate these while keeping the same usability and such as their original incarnations. For those interested in a Rust variant, I've been hacking on one for awhile: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao I wouldn't say it's yet ready for production use, but so far it's working pretty well for me. Been dogfooding it by building an app I've wanted for a bit - a proper magic-wormhole macOS app. One of the things I've really wanted to keep to is the delegate pattern, since I think it actually works really well for Rust's model. A fun example I finished yesterday is ListView cell reuse: https://twitter.com/ryanmcgrath/status/1357097991081844737/p... Ultimately I view this as one of the last pieces needed for a

I mean, it depends on the Swift code you write - basic example which could be done fairly closely: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao/blob/trunk/examples/aut... Having written my fair share of both languages, I don't think they're as far apart as people think... yet, anyway. I doubt my response will age well.

I experimented with this in cacao: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao I just need to get around to "finishing" it. I think most of the other approaches miss what people would realistically need out of ObjC/Rust interop, so... well, that's my hat in the ring.

You won't get around the unsafe. I've been hacking away at these for a few months now: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao Goal is to get a good-enough version to build apps with. I'm dogfooding it for my next product so there's some incentive to keep pushing.