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vlad_kalinkin

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About vlad_kalinkin

Kakehashi developer

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    Comment #49155588

    It's not on the list of goals yet (so far only CLI and a stable basis), but of course if I went to GUI, it would be nice, since I work in Logic Pro :) By the way, has anyone checke…

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    Comment #49152063

    Wow! Best of luck with your project. It's truly amazing how our ideas mirrored each other perfectly :)

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    Comment #49151743

    Based on the commit history, it took about 6 days of active development. As for the AI assistant, I used Grok 4.5 in Build (Medium, no sub-agents, just standard chats and Plan Mode…

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    Comment #49151525

    Haha, thanks for the comment! My previous project had a more traditional name: WIE (Wie is Emulator), which was an attempt to run PE64 binaries on macOS via Cranelift JIT. It was a…

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    Comment #49147197

    Thanks! What I meant is that Kakehashi doesn't require a custom Linux kernel module (LKM). Kakehashi operates completely without root privileges or kernel-level modifications. By "…

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    Comment #49146806

    That's true. But if we can achieve support for the current stable version, it will be much easier to add new features later or rework the ones that were replaced (unless Apple chan…

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    Comment #49146714

    Thank you very much!

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    Comment #49146642

    Well, of course, most of all I would like to achieve full-fledged support for Xcode Tools (including building iOS applications) and the macOS version of Homebrew. But, of course, t…

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    Comment #49146583

    Thanks for the comment! You guessed it, I did use LLMs during development. While the strict definition of a "clean room" design can be debatable when AI is involved, I'd consider t…

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    Comment #49145939

    Hi HN, I started developing an experimental project with the goal of running macOS CLI binaries natively on Linux ARM machines. As of now, we have working prototypes for: - 7-Zip: …

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    Comment #49141841

    I remember using an old 2018 Intel MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM about two years ago. That thing was noisy. Every time I tried to compile a larger project or work in Logic, the RAM w…

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