Ask HN: Resources to Learn macOS Development?

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  1. dns-heaven

    Fixes stupid macOS DNS stack (/etc/resolv.conf)

    It looked like maybe BackgroundTask is what I'm looking for, but it seems arbitrarily limited on macOS to an urlsession, whatever that is ?

    [1]: https://github.com/greenboxal/dns-heaven/

  2. Stream

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  3. Unwrap

    Learn Swift interactively on your iPhone.

  4. EffectivePower

    Apple PLSQL viewer

  5. VirtualApple

    Work with macOS VMs using Virtualization

  6. open-source-mac-os-apps

    🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps

    The other responses have some great answers, but I learn best by breaking something that is already working, and so this list may have useful sources of code to poke around in: https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps

  7. imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

    2nded.

    Is there a macOs equivalent of the Windows Internals [0] books?

    I recently came across ImGui [1] which uses C++. I assume that cross platform software from Adobe, Microsoft, etc have C++ at their core and would love to find more in the way of resources for C++ on mac. Anyone?

    [0] https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-architecture-m...

    [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

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