Wine has been going for a very long time - since 1993.

When it started Windows was a lot smaller, so getting Windows 3.1 programs working was probably enough.

There's too much history to cover in a quick comment.

Wine has a lots of things that help - the compatibility database https://appdb.winehq.org/ is a good place for people to submit info on apps for instance, there's also a big test suite that runs against Windows + Wine.

Both of these have been around since the 1990s - Darling is at an earlier stage, but once GUI apps run better both of those are good ideas to adopt.

I think Darling probably needs more people working on it.

The whole are of Metal on Vulkan looks interesting https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/390#issuecomment...