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Top 23 Cocoa Open-Source Projects
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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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ravynos
A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
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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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Latest
A small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.
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SubEthaEdit
General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.
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AuroraEditor
Aurora Editor is a IDE built by the community, for the community, and written in Swift for the best native performance and feel for macOS.
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Project mention: CudaText: Cross-platform, open source code editor written in Object Pascal | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-13I mostly work on MacOS these days and previously my general purpose text editor wax Textmate: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
Last official release was 2021, so I looked for something more regularely updated, and found CudaText. Definitely very Sublime-ish, and I like it so far.
CotEditor doesn’t get enough due. Completely Mac-native and open source.
https://coteditor.com/
https://github.com/coteditor/
Project mention: Solitaire: Authentic remake of the Windows 95 original | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17
Project mention: Ravynos: BSD-based OS with an experience like and some compatibility with macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-28
In case anyone else is unfamiliar:
> pywebview uses native GUI for creating a web component window: WinForms on Windows, Cocoa on macOS, QT or GTK on Linux and Kivy for Android.
https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview
Project mention: Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-23Something for which I wish there was a windows variant...
Embedding a script into a small tray icon/menubar app can be extremely powerfull even with its low complexity.
[1]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus
Relevant and related is the free (donations accepted) program called Latest.app which scans your installed applications and summarises all apps which use Sparkle and have available updates. It's neat.
https://max.codes/latest/
Project mention: So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21This 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
Project mention: Ask HN: Best Password Manager without cloud login? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-04I followed a similar path as you did about a year ago. Having tried a bunch of options, I can recommend strongly Strongbox - fantastic native apps for iOS and macOS, with your choice of sync mechanism (local-only is also a first class citizen), and it uses the KeePass file format so you can use your client of choice on other operating systems/no worries about lock-in. Good system integration and autofill extensions. I also appreciated that there was an option for a one-time purchase.
https://strongboxsafe.com
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).
Cocoa related posts
- Racket Language
- Calling Haskell from Swift
- So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS
- Bare Bones Software – BBEdit 15 is here
- Racket branch of Chez Scheme merging with mainline Chez Scheme
- Equivalent Text Software to Notepad++ on Windows for Mac
- Sveinbjornt/Platypus: Create native Mac applications from command line scripts
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Cocoa projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Carthage | 14,901 |
| 2 | TextMate | 14,179 |
| 3 | macdown | 9,374 |
| 4 | vimr | 6,555 |
| 5 | CotEditor | 6,075 |
| 6 | wxWidgets | 5,721 |
| 7 | ravynos | 5,364 |
| 8 | macdriver | 4,340 |
| 9 | pywebview | 4,302 |
| 10 | Platypus | 2,698 |
| 11 | Latest | 2,509 |
| 12 | BetterSegmentedControl | 2,179 |
| 13 | cacao | 1,733 |
| 14 | SwiftyAttributes | 1,605 |
| 15 | SubEthaEdit | 1,355 |
| 16 | Strongbox | 1,271 |
| 17 | NSWindowStyles | 1,076 |
| 18 | AuroraEditor | 923 |
| 19 | Scrooge | 788 |
| 20 | sentry-cocoa | 763 |
| 21 | ShortcutRecorder | 560 |
| 22 | nappgui_src | 436 |
| 23 | Content | 434 |
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