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SwiftUI compatibility experiments for Linux, QuillData, QuillKit, and Enchanted/Quill Chat porting

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macOS Apps on Linux: SwiftUI for Linux (and AppKit, NSFoundation, etc.)

Name: macOS Apps on Linux: SwiftUI for Linux (and AppKit, NSFoundation, etc.)
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Author: ljlolel

by ljlolel·Jun 8, 2026·6 points·0 comments

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Reimplements AppKit on Qt to run SwiftUI apps on Linux without emulation.

Strengths

•Detailed docs track API parity for Network, Security, and UIKit specifically.
•Ports real apps like Enchanted instead of just hello-world demos.
•Avoids binary emulation by recompiling source against reimplemented frameworks.

Weaknesses

•Zero forks and three stars suggest community buy-in is currently non-existent.
•Keeping parity with Apple's rapidly changing private APIs will be a nightmare.

Post Description

I made an open-source project that will take an existing macOS swift project and make it easily compile into a Linux (GTK/ or Qt). It's part of a new quality Swift-first OS I am making called QuillOS.

I'm eager for help and for feedback.

Also looking for people who have Swift code (there is very little open source swift code) who can give me example apps to compile against this to find any missing holes. The simpler/smaller the better but any size good.

It's also easy to convert any working iOS app and adapt it to macOS with Claude, and then also cross-compile to Linux with this.

https://github.com/Lore-Hex/QuillUI