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Darling is a translation layer for running macOS (10.15; command-line) apps on Linux. It’s built on Darwin and is similar to WINE.
Might be interesting if, say, you want to look into maybe supporting your command-line app on macOS without having to pay Apple a few grand every-so-many years or mess with setting up a virtual machine for an operating system that doesn’t want to run on any device Tim Cook doesn’t personally profit from.
The downside is you have to build it yourself. The upside of the downside is that the build instructions* are actually really good and I didn’t run into any trouble even when building in a Distrobox container running Fedora 36 on my host system running Fedora Silverblue 37.
I did get a few warnings on launch** but I was able to install homebrew and the Xcode command-line tools without problem.
* https://docs.darlinghq.org/build-instructions.html
** https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/1248
@aral really interresting, i wonder if it would allow packaging an ios app from linux, and run it on an attached ios device (a task that currently requires XCode), that would be quite awesome.
edit: unsurprisingly there are quite a few issues related to xcode open already, so it seems unable to do so (yet), but the devs are certainly aware of the interrest in that use case.