Swiftz
| Swiftz | objc-ast-experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 3,328 | 7 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Swift | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | - |
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Swiftz
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C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
Draw a line through this 12+-year-old effort from Robert Widmann and his 8-year-old exercise in type-lifting Swift [1] and ask yourself: what is he doing now at Apple?
[1] https://github.com/typelift/Swiftz
objc-ast-experiments
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C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
Here's something similar by Garret Bass:
https://github.com/garettbass/oc
...I also experimented a bit with parsing macOS system headers via clang-ast-dump and then code-generating C and Zig APIs but that didn't get far:
https://github.com/floooh/objc-ast-experiments
...with a bit of effort and maybe using libclang instead of clang-ast-dump that's definitely feasible though.
I guess a similar approach is used by the official C++ bindings for Metal:
https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
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Show HN: C-ocoa, Write iOS/macOS apps in any language, with a generated C API
This is basically also what the "official" C++ API for Metal does (https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/), it's an automatically generated bindings wrapper which calls into ObjC runtime functions.
I also dabbled a bit with this idea by parsing clang AST-dumps of macOS system headers:
https://github.com/floooh/objc-ast-experiments
Unfortunately this is very brittle, and also broke on ARM CPUs, I guess the shim code needs some ABI adjustments (famously, objc_msgSend has multiple "ABI shapes": https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...).
What are some alternatives?
Argo - Functional JSON parsing library for Swift
metal-cpp - Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.
Swiftx - Functional data types and functions for any project
windy - Windowing library for Nim using OS native APIs.
R.swift - Strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects
Runes - Infix operators for monadic functions in Swift
LlamaKit - Collection of must-have functional Swift tools
Prelude - Swift µframework of simple functional programming tools
Hookah
Oriole - A functional utility belt implemented as Swift 2.0 protocol extensions.
Funky - Functional programming tools and experiments in Swift.
OptionalExtensions - Swift µframework with extensions for the Optional Type