| ▲ | nonestdeus a day ago |
| Cool that it exists, but I honestly don't even know which mac exclusive program I would want to install. |
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| ▲ | jeremyjh a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| If its possible to compile & and sign iOS or MacOS apps that would be VERY useful in CI environments, but yeah hard to think of other killer command-line apps that only run on MacOS. If they had good GUI support then some more things open up but nothing really essential. Garage Band has no equal in terms of ease of use, if you are into that sort of thing. |
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| ▲ | MrAlex94 a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Just in case anyone is wondering - this is already possible with Clang/LLVM and the work from Gregory Szorc: https://github.com/indygreg/apple-platform-rs/tree/main The Firefox source tree has every tool available for cross-compilation from Linux → macOS, which is how Firefox is built for macOS. | | |
| ▲ | henearkr 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | The real deal-breaker is supporting the iOS app development. Which right now is only possible using XCode. |
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| ▲ | mike_hearn 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can ship a fully signed and self-updating macOS app from Linux (or Windows) using my product Conveyor: https://hydraulic.dev/ It has built in support for Electron, JVM, Flutter and even native apps (although of course then you still have to compile the native binaries on macOS yourself). That also works the other way around. You can ship to Windows from Linux or macOS. | | |
| ▲ | henearkr 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | No support for iOS though. | | |
| ▲ | mike_hearn 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right, it's meant for portable desktop apps. You have to compile iOS apps on a Mac anyway so I'm not sure there'd be any demand for Conveyor's cross-building support for iOS apps. | | |
| ▲ | henearkr 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | "You have to compile iOS apps on a Mac anyway" Well, not if somebody finds a way to run the compilation elsewhere! Hence my comment! Right now, iOS dev requires to own a recent Mac machine, which is hell of expensive, and moreover needs to be renewed every few years... Completely unjustifiable... |
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| ▲ | addandsubtract 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Photoshop / Adobe apps are mainly holding me back from switching to Linux completely. |
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| ▲ | zamalek 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | Wine does support Affinity now, if your Adobe muscle memory isn't a personal law of physics. |
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| ▲ | Gigachad a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Might be useful to run ARM mac apps on ARM Linux vs using Wine + an x86 emulation layer. |
