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Using Qt as a Cocoa stand-in sounds complicated. Since Darling already uses its own loader and syscall hooking to provide compatibility for the program, why not do the same for a framework like Cocoa?

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Same type of deal as in Wine, copyright-type stuff.

there is hope that the decision in Oracle vs Google[0] on API's not being copyrightable might change that

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_v._Google

I think zw meant that the Cocoa binaries can't be distributed with Darling. That's not a major problem for users that have a copy of OS X. Darling can allow users to supply their own.

The potential issue you refer to would also prevent implementing the Cocoa API with Qt.

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