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williamcotton on April 19, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: C-Macs – a pure C macOS application

It has to hand over the reigns to the Objective-C runtime to allow for all the messages being passed between objects.

I’m not sure you want to spend your time rewriting what NSApp is doing!

saagarjha on April 19, 2024 [–]

The runtime knows how to do that already. -[NSApplication run] sets up the runloop to drain events among other things.

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