macOS 26? I thought the last version was 15…
Looks like they’re jumping from 15 to 26, in fact they’re doing the same thing for iOS, jumping from 18 to 26 for the next release. Looks like they’re synchronizing all their OS version numbers using the year they’ll be primarily used(i.e. 2026) from what I can find.
This is my preferred versioning format for user-facing software, by far.
I feel like Semver should also adopt the date inclusion, like 7.4.2-202606 or even 7.4.202606 — you can even extended it to multiple daily releases like 7.4.20260610.1233
There’s too much software to mentally track when each version was released. You should be able to tell at a glance.
I’m not an apple person, so even I saw news about iOS I thought “how the fuck are they on 26 already?”
I didn’t really care, but I appreciate the explanation.
Tbh I’m not an apple person either. The comment about macOS being on 26 caught my eye and I went and did some research.
pretty scant on details. what is this doing for me that Podman or Containerd aren’t? “oPtIMizeD fOR aPPlE SiLICon” is fluff
Well it helps that its open source & apple is actually encouraging contributions: https://github.com/apple/container
We need to develop darling too
Darling is a cool project but I think the reason it hasn’t taken off is because there isn’t a lot of software people both want to use on Linux and software that isn’t already covered by wine. You need an overlap between those 2 and that’s a small market
Yeah, I just think that maybe, just maybe, if MacOS is also inspired by UNIX, making a compat layer is not that big of a difference. Because MacOS supports a lot of productivity programs that may attract professionals to Linux too. Mostly adobe suite.
The problem with that thought is the lower level bits are very *nix but all the higher level bits like the GUI and other surrounding APIs are all heavily Objective-C/NextStep based and aren’t really all that unixy. We do have GNUStep as a base to use for that to an extent but I really don’t think the unix parts of Mac, are that helpful to porting complex user facing GUI programs.
Wine is successful because of the decades of work put into it. For Darling to reach that level of support it would need a herculean amount of effort as well.
