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madsmtm / objc2

Bindings to Apple's frameworks in Rust
https://docs.rs/objc2/
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Improve Xcode support #459

Open madsmtm opened 1 year ago

madsmtm commented 1 year ago

There is a bunch of Rust tools out there that ease access to (parts of) Xcode:

But all of them currently feel quite clunky, or are missing a lot of functionality.

If we actually desire at least somewhat competitiveness with Swift (https://github.com/madsmtm/objc2/issues/429), it needs to be easy to:

All of these are certainly possible to do outside of Xcode, and we should strive towards that eventually, but it's going to take a lot of time for the ecosystem to get there! So instead, we should start by making it easier to work with Rust projects inside Xcode!

Perhaps a path forward would be some combination of rust-xcode-plugin, a Source Editor Extension and cargo-xcode? Ideally, we'd want full LSP-like support, and probably eventually some kind of IBAction/IBOutlet support, but having a solid way to run Rust applications from inside Xcode would be a huge step!

Let's also remember that Rust is not the only ecosystem that has this problem, perhaps we can learn from what others are doing? Mentioning XcodeGen here.

madsmtm commented 1 year ago

Whether or not we (as in, this project) end up solving these problems, we need to curate and link users to the current best solutions.

madsmtm commented 1 year ago

Related: https://github.com/RalfJung/cargo-careful/issues/22

madsmtm commented 11 months ago

Swift has something called Package Plugins, specifically the "build tool plugin" may allow us to easily invoke Cargo from Xcode

madsmtm commented 10 months ago

For interface builder support, this removed document detailing the legacy IB plug-ins might reveal some more information on how these links work?

Maybe it utilizes NSKeyValueBindingCreation?

madsmtm commented 8 months ago

Upstream rustc issues

Various issues that would benefit Xcode integration:

Paths are weird:

Rpaths are weirder: