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24 alternatives to Cross-platform Objective-C, now with IDE and dependency management

A year after the 0.8.0 release, I am proud to announce the release version 0.13.0 of mulle-objc with the MulleFoundation. This coincides with the release of the new mulle-clang compiler and mulle-lldb debugger, which are based on llvm 6.0. This release brings cross-platform Objective-C development a

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cross-platform Objective-C, now with IDE and dependency management launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    👢 Cross platform dependency manager for developers - mulle-nat-stash/mulle-bootstrap

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Y-Combinator for Objective-C. Contribute to jballanc/objc-ycomb development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A multitasking monolithic Kernel based x86 targeting Operating System written in C# from scratch aiming for high-level implementation of drivers in managed environment. - amaneureka/AtomOS

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A repository that collects libc ABI files for multiple versions and a tool to combine them into one dataset. - ziglang/libc-abi-tools

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Repo: https://github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700 Hi Everyone! I just wrote my first compiler! - single pass, recursive descent, direct emission - generates REL ELF binaries, runnable using ESP-IDF elf_loader - very basic features only, just enough for self-hosting - treats the Xtensa CPU as a stack machine for simplicity, no register allocation / window usage - compilable on Mac, probably also Linux, can cross-compile for esp32 there - wrote for fun / cyberdeck project Sample output from esp32: xcc700.elf xcc700.c -o /d/cc.elf [ xcc700 ] BUILD COMPLETED >…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Naga77 menjadi pilihan gaming modern karena sistem andal hadirkan visual menarik sehingga aktivitas bermain terasa lebih bernilai konsisten sepanjang waktu Naga77.

    2020 · tboox.org · its alternatives →

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    Single header stackful cross-platform coroutine library in pure C. - edubart/minicoro

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    minimal freestanding C library for bare-metal i386 development - marssaxman/startc

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🔄 Flexible C memory allocation scheme. Contribute to mulle-c/mulle-allocator development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey y’all! About 7 years ago, I had this idea to write a JIT with an autogenerated backend for x86 based on the ISA specs. I sketched something out and then just kinda let it sit. I picked it up again a few weeks ago and made a complete-ish backend for both x86 and ARM64. It has no dependencies, the backends are completely autogenerated (by horrible, horrible JS scripts), and I built a small abstraciton layer for things like functions prologues etc. It’s super duper early and will probably break on your machine, but it’s good enough to compile some cool examples (look at the examples…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    2019 · xmake.io · its alternatives →

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    I have been working on this game somewhat sparsely for the past three years or so. However, it is still in a very early stage, and there is a lot of work to do. One of my friends encouraged me to post about it here, since he felt people might find interesting how I don’t use any libraries for it. The game can be played on a browser by virtue of WebAssembly. There are native ports using either MiniFB or SDL2, but you have to build those yourself. I decided to write the game in C because I feel like it is a simple language that a lot of people can understand well enough, and I didn’t think I…

    2023 · zamfofex.neocities.org · its alternatives →

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    World’s most powerful file comparison app

    2021 · kaleidoscope.app · its alternatives →

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    2012 · underscorem.org · its alternatives →

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    🎁 A glib-like multi-platform c library. Contribute to tboox/tbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore the architecture of apps with an interactive graph

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    A minimal stack-based VM. Contribute to codr7/liblg development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I've been working on this project for a while, and it has been in an "open" beta for some time. I finally believe it's ready for its first release. I hope you like it. Here are some potential questions that may arise: 1. How does it compare to LM Studio? It's likely that if you're already using LM Studio, you'll continue to do so. This project is designed to be more user-friendly. 2. Is it open-source? No, it is not. 3. Does it use any open-source libraries? Yes, it uses llama.cpp and a few others, as indicated in the license information included with the application. 4. Why is not…

    2023 · avapls.com · its alternatives →

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    Objective-C synchronization framework for apps

    2016 · ensembles.io · its alternatives →

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    A cross-platform C and C++ unit testing framework for the 21st century - Snaipe/Criterion

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Runs AWS graviton2 images on intel, with native-speed compile times - valkmit/aws-graviton2-on-intel

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling (small, selfcontained, and native executables) - bflattened/bflat

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🔠 Cross-platform thread/mutex/tss/atomic operations in C - mulle-concurrent/mulle-thread

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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