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  • Whisky

    A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI

  • Use https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky or Crossover. It runs really well if you change the launch options to `nojoy`, turn on vsync (or else it may crash every couple minutes), and can bear some audio glitches.

  • MoltenVK

    MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.

  • https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

    Translating between rendering APIs is not really the problem. The GPU design is more different than the API is.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • WineskinServer

    Wineskin

  • You may be interested in Wineskin for M1/M2 Macs. I use this to play some old school games on my 2023 M2 Max Mac. https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer

  • bgfx

    Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

  • OpenFrameworks

    openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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