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Top 9 C Cocoa Projects
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ravynos
An open-source OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
Project mention: New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-20 -
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WinDiskWriter
🖥 Windows Bootable USB creator for macOS. 🛠 Patches Windows 11 to bypass TPM and Secure Boot requirements. 👾 UEFI & Legacy Support
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Silicon
An alternative, purely C-focused wrapper to Apple's Cocoa API for OS X app development and basic iOS programming. Requires little to no Objective-C knowledge to use. (by EimaMei)
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People wanting a Retina-capable drawterm to access Plan9/9front from their Macs are welcome to have a look at https://github.com/rcarmo/drawterm
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Cocoa discussion
C Cocoa related posts
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Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
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Ravynos: BSD-based OS with an experience like and some compatibility with macOS
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GUI in c++
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NAppGUI: ANSI C SDK for building cross-platform desktop apps
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SDK for building cross-platform desktop apps in ANSI-C
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is there any way to natively run macos applications on freebsd since macos is just a freebsd fork?
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Are there any plans to work with the darling developers and potentially fork darling for macOS app compatibility?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Cocoa projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ravynos | 7,050 |
| 2 | WinDiskWriter | 4,811 |
| 3 | RGFW | 1,899 |
| 4 | nappgui_src | 707 |
| 5 | nappgui | 95 |
| 6 | Silicon | 57 |
| 7 | drawterm | 31 |
| 8 | Send | 26 |
| 9 | rim | 12 |
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