Stela: open-source Apple Silicon layer boots macOS on x86-64 PCs via arm64 translation
rickasaurus · x · 2026-11-12
Stela (v0.1.0, 673 GitHub stars) is a general-purpose Apple Silicon compatibility layer for x86-64 PCs: a UEFI boot program with an AOT+JIT arm64e-to-x86-64 translator covering 3,000+ AArch64 instruction encodings, a Metal driver for NVIDIA GPUs, and a model of Apple silicon hardware, aiming to boot macOS and most apps on regular PCs.
The project warns it's early days — booting chances are low and major hardware support fixes are on the way. GPL-2.0, written in Rust, with 6,570 commits.
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