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Darling, the open-source project bringing macOS compatibility to Linux, is formally accepting AI-generated contributions as it tries to make progress on a task that has outgrown its small contributor base. Its plan is to bring improvements from independent forks into the main project over the next two months, though the promising app demonstrations have not yet made that journey.

What happened Darling founder Luboš Doležel says the project has struggled to keep pace with Apple’s frameworks since it began in 2012. A Linuxiac report says AI-assisted forks have recently shown progress: one ran League of Legends, while VibeDarling got a number of native macOS apps working. Those changes remain outside Darling’s main codebase. The project’s new contribution policy keeps responsibility with the developer: contributors must understand and explain their code, follow clean-room rules, avoid leaked Apple source and implement documented behaviour rather than app-specific workarounds. AI agents are also being used to help merge forked changes and find or fix bugs, according to the report.

Discuss: Can AI-assisted contributions help a small compatibility project make real progress, or will testing and integration prove to be the harder part?

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