Tuist VS windows

Yes! That’s actually what https://tuist.dev is doing. They use Lume to spin up ephemeral macOS VMs with Xcode preinstalled, so they can run builds in clean, reproducible environments. It’s great for CI workflows where you want full macOS without managing long-lived hosts

At my current workplace, we use Tuist. It's a great tool, but there are 20 of us, so it's necessary. In smaller teams (up to 5-7 people) I didn't feel like there were huge problems with .xcodeproj. Sure, some conflicts now and then, but far from every time you merge something. https://github.com/tuist/tuist

Tuist Projects ('Project.swift'), Swift packages ('Package.swift'), and barebone xcodeproj are now supported.

On a project I worked on I transitioned the codebase to a micro framework setup using tuist.io.

I think the hate comes from seeing its unresponsiveness and slow builds in large-scale projects. Everything works great in a recently-creates project until your project turns into a complex dependency graph of targets with intricate and inconsistent build settings. That’s the main reason why we are building https://tuist.io

Hey HN, we're excited to share Lumier (https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier), an open-source tool for running macOS and Linux virtual machines in Docker containers on Apple Silicon Macs.

When building virtualized environments for AI agents, we needed a reproducible way to package and distribute macOS VMs. Inspired by projects like dockur/windows (https://github.com/dockur/windows) that pioneered running Windows in Docker, we wanted to create something similar but optimized for Apple Silicon. The existing solutions either didn't support M-series chips or relied on KVM/Intel emulation, which was slow and cumbersome. We realized we could leverage Apple's Virtualization Framework to create a much better experience.

Lumier takes a different approach: it uses Docker as a delivery mechanism (not for isolation) and connects to a lightweight virtualization service (lume) running on your Mac. This creates true hardware-accelerated VMs using Apple's native virtualization capabilities.

With Lumier, you can:

Use the default configurations, credentials, disk space, RAM, etc., provided in the compose.yaml file from the dockur/windows repo.