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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 2, 2011 at 10:07am

What ever you do don't ask to be sent the Alpha or Beta version of Gh for Mac!

 

If you want a spot of light reading you can put the phrase "mac" into the Search Grasshopper facility over there ------------------------->

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 2, 2011 at 11:26am

We hope so. I'm not currently involved in getting .NET plugins running on the mac, but I do know we've had .NET code (i.e. the same rhp file) run on both the windows and the mac version. We've made some pretty good progress using Mono as a substitute for Microsoft.NET but a number of problems still remain:

 

1) Mono doesn't yet have a 64-bit version. We need this.

2) The System.Windows.Forms namespace as implemented in Mono uses the Carbon platform. Rhino for mac uses the newer Cocoa platform. The two are incompatible within the same application. We've hired someone to start work on a Cocoa-Mono framework. We've also made this project open-source.

 

I honestly have no idea how far we are from releasing a Grasshopper for mac. I don't even know how far we are from trying this. Steve Baer (our in house .NET/interop wizard) has just returned from the Monospace conference and may have some more information about where exactly we stand.

 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 2, 2011 at 11:49am

Nice, It would be nice to one day be able to delete bootcamp all together as I'm still holding on to it solely for Rhino and grasshopper. I can dream can't I. You guys are doing some fantastic things. Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Lorenzo Franceschini on December 17, 2013 at 2:39am

Hello guys, 

same for me here, keeping bootcamp just for rhino and gh.

Keep us posted on development!:)
meanwhile we'll keep on dreaming!

Permalink Reply by Thomas Perkov on November 13, 2014 at 6:22am

" Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run on Linux and Mac"

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/microsoft-open-sources-net-says-will-r...

:-O :-O ? 

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 13, 2014 at 6:56am

.NET already runs on Mac in the form of Mono. There were a few missing bits and pieces which the Mono people have mentioned they'll implement now that the original source is available. 

The problem is not having a cross platform UI framework which works on winforms/WPF and Cocoa. However we're working on this and we've already got some .NET plugins with custom UI running on both platforms.

It is pretty good news though, this will definitely ensure .NET's popularity for the foreseeable future, not to mention we should be getting a lot of cool new stuff now that other people can work with the source.