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 EimaKve)
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  • Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2025
    I made RGFW, which calls Objective-C MacOS's API functions in Pure C.

    BUT I would also like to mention a project a friend and I made called Silicon. Silicon is a single-header C wrapper around the Pure-C calls, which makes it far more convenient to use.

    https://github.com/eimamei/silicon

    I no longer use it in RGFW because I wanted to remove the extra dependency.

  • RGFW Under the Hood: Cocoa in Pure C
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Aug 2024
    Silicon.h, a C-Wrapper for the Cocoa API that wraps around the Objective-C function calls so you can use the Cocoa API in normal-looking C code, and RGFW, a lightweight single-header windowing library.

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EimaKve/Silicon is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of Silicon is C.

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