Top 3 Rust Appkit Projects

cacao

22 1,733 6.7 Rust

Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS). Experimental, but working!

Project mention: So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21

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

objc2

3 262 9.6 Rust

Bindings to Apple's frameworks in Rust
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fruity

1 165 0.0 Rust

Rusty bindings for Apple libraries

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).