Tart
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“that can easily be adapted to more secure scenarios”
“My take is that the Tart approach is superior to this”
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“And projects like Tart, VirtualBuddy, etc. provide convenient wrappers for these APIs.”
“Use Tart or VirtualBuddy, both open-source, for a packaged solution”
“for macOS, tart has been great!”
Caveats and dissent
“Why they've chosen this isn't super clear”
“This feels disingenuous. Tart has unattended setup support as well”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“use it with herdr or tmux, Ive been obsessed.”
Hah, another tart: https://github.com/jtdaugherty/tart/
“I made these to create styled text art for the MOTD of my university's HPC login node”
Threads where it came up
- Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode 3 mentions
- Text Art Tools 2 mentions
- Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026 2 mentions
- Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup 2 mentions
- An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot 1 mention
- item 49275006 1 mention
Also written as tart. Data: tart.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 18
“that can easily be adapted to more secure scenarios”
“My take is that the Tart approach is superior to this”
“And projects like Tart, VirtualBuddy, etc. provide convenient wrappers for these APIs.”
“Use Tart or VirtualBuddy, both open-source, for a packaged solution”
“if you choose the Tart backend”
“Why they've chosen this isn't super clear”
“AFAICT it's pretty similar”
“for macOS, tart has been great!”
“http://tart.run makes the VM part easy.”
“All the Android / iOS devs on my team use Tart locally when we need to test mixed environments.”
“What are your plans for tart licensing going forward?”
“tart, which is a lightweight wrapper around the official Apple API.”
“Tart vm on mac”
“http://tart.run works great for running macOS (and Linux) VMs on macOS”
“using Tart and using VS Code Remote”
“Tart VM or manually doing apple's container CLI is maybe most of the way there”
“This feels disingenuous. Tart has unattended setup support as well”
“We went through the comparison with Tart, Lima etc here”