It's been a while since our last progress report, and a lot has changed. This update covers the biggest shifts in the project: our new policy on AI-assisted contributions, initial ARM64 support, and what we plan to work on next.
The biggest change in the project this year is not a feature, but a policy: we have adopted rules for AI-assisted contributions. We know this is a divisive topic that many open source projects are debating right now, and the concern about low-quality "slop" is a fair one. But in the hands of people who know the project's internals, an LLM can be a very powerful tool.
Developing Darling has always been a lot of fun, but it was also hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Let's face it: Apple is a huge company with many engineers shipping new features all the time, and a small group of volunteers is no match for that capacity. I started Darling in 2012, and until recently very few real-world macOS applications actually ran on it.
