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CodeWeavers
Company blog · codeweavers.com/blogsystemsprogramming
CodeWeavers is the company blog at codeweavers.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2008, 142 different Hacker News readers have linked it 259 times, most often “Apple's Game Porting Toolkit powered by CrossOver source code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CodeWeavers' blog mainly for company announcements and staff posts, such as CrossOver on ARM and 32-bit Windows app support on macOS Catalina. Most links in the comments go to product pages instead.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Discover the easiest way to run Microsoft Windows productivity apps and games on Mac and Linux without purchasing a Windows license, using a Virtual Machine, or Dual-Booting.
Most-linked posts?
- /crossover17 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2021-02-28
- /11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-11-14
- Apple's Game Porting Toolkit powered by CrossOver source code8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-06-06
- CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers to Work on Wine and Valve's Proton6 people · 50 mentions · first linked 2019-02-01
- CrossOver/Wine Runs Windows Apps on Apple Silicon6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-11-18
- Running 32bit Apps on macOS Catalina5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-12-10
- Celebrating the difficult; the release of CrossOver 195 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-14
- CodeWeavers CrossOver 26.3 Release4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-14
- It's great to live in interesting times (Apple Silicon Macs support CrossOver)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-12
- CrossOver 23.5 is a real game changer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-27
What Hacker News says?
> So Steam + Proton works on aarch64? CodeWeavers just announced[0] CrossOver on ARM a couple of days ago, so yes. [0]: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2025/11/6/twist-ou...
Comment linking /blog/mjohnson/2025/11/6/twist-our-arm64-heres-the-latest-crossover-preview
on “Steam Machine”Submitted Codeweavers released CrossOver 24 today as a story · 97 points
HN discussionI cannot possibly imagine a world where Microsoft cannibalizes their Windows Server sales by creating a Windows Emulation Layer for Linux. Crossover is probably the best you'll get: https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux Otherwise, if you only need Windows to game, I'd highly suggested PCI Passthrough so that you can use your GPU in a Windows VM: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via…
Comment linking /products/crossover-linux
on “Ubuntu on Windows”Submitted CrossOver for Android Runs on ChromeBooks as a story · 74 points
HN discussionI worked on this problem for a bit. What's going on is the game relies on the OS-provided C runtime libraries ("msvcrt"-style things) to do its math. Wine's implementation of these libraries does not match Windows's perfectly. If all players are using the same implementation, then they will agree, and there are no problems, so people think it is working. But if a player on Wine tries to play against a player on Wind…
Comment linking /blog/rbernon/2022/9/12/ucrtcringedll-reverse-engineering-ucrtbasedll-for-pain-and-non-profit
on “The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source”Submitted Codeweavers to overtake Microsoft by 2018 as a story · 62 points
HN discussionThis is really the case and has been for years now. This is a list of software I run or have run and that I keep checking on every 6th month or so. Most of them simply dont work, some have unstable limited features. https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/microsof... https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/adobe-cr... https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/corel-pa... https://www…
Comment linking /compatibility/crossover/evernote-6x
on “The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source”Submitted Google Chrome running on OSX and Linux as a story · 41 points
HN discussion> The UI is still better on Windows(basic utilities like File Explorer and Config Management is better on Windows). 5 years ago, we would be comparing old GNOME 3 or KDE Plasma 5 on X11 and Windows 10. I would be forced to agree. The Windows UI was better in many ways at that point. Today we have KDE Plasma 6.3 on Wayland and Windows 11. This is an entirely different ball game. It's hard to explain. Wayland feels li…
Comment linking /compatibility/crossover/microsoft-excel-365
on “The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source”Submitted I Hate the New Macbooks as a story · 32 points
HN discussionLittle of column A, little of column B ;) This was a fun day in the office: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2011/1/18/all-dresse...
Comment linking /blog/jwhite/2011/1/18/all-dressed-up-macworld-to-go
on “Apple M5 chip”Submitted Crossover to support DirectX 11 on Mac and Linux “in the coming months” as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI've found that CrossOver[0] does a really good job at getting Windows games to run on Mac. It might be a good stopgap. [0] https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
Comment linking /crossover
on “Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released”Submitted Working on Wine – Introduction to Developing for the Wine Project as a story · 13 points
HN discussionCrossover probably can run it :) https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
Comment linking /crossover
on “Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released”Submitted Running 32bit Apps on macOS Catalina as a story · 12 points
HN discussionCodeWeavers | St Paul, MN, USA | Full Time | REMOTE | Wine, 3D Graphics, and General Open Source Developers | C-language systems programming https://www.codeweavers.com/about/jobs CodeWeavers is hiring skilled C programmers to work on the open source Wine project and other related open source projects, including several 3D graphics projects (Vulkan, OpenGL, and Direct3D). CodeWeavers partnered with Valve Software to…
Comment linking /about/jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Wine build that runs 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit-only macOS Catalina as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCodeWeavers sells app support: https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
Comment linking /crossover
on “Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm”Submitted Ucrtcringe.dll: Reverse engineering ucrtbase.dll for pain and non-profit as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA non-trivial number of contributions to Wine come from CodeWeavers (30%+ of all commits), which in turn is funded by its work on Crossover, Proton, and commercial agreements with other businesses. Wine would not be the project it is today without the contributions of CodeWeavers. Contributing cash to the companies contributing code is a perfectly adequete form of giving back. CodeWeavers released an annoucement whe…
Comment linking /blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-comes-to-macos-apple-s-game-porting-toolkit-powered-by-crossover-source-code
on “AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux”Submitted CrossOver/Wine Runs Windows Apps on Apple Silicon as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCodeWeavers's usage of Wine and other open-source projects has always been open-source. You can download our Wine fork source from our website[1]. We do use a small amount of closed-source glue to provide our installation magic and desktop integration. Wine switched to LGPL due to other proprietary forks. [1] https://www.codeweavers.com/products/more-information/source
Comment linking /products/more-information/source
on “Wine 2.0 released”Submitted Apple's Game Porting Toolkit powered by CrossOver source code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe biggest commercial contributor to Wine is CodeWeavers: https://www.codeweavers.com/ Fantastic and very sympathetic small company which offers a next-next-finish installation of Wine. Excellent if you run a Linux desktop in a corporate environment that expects the ability to run Windows stuff.
Comment linking /
on “Wine 2.0 released”Submitted One year working as a Wine hacker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionValve has been contracting https://www.codeweavers.com/ , the main people behind Wine, a good deal, so they do deserve more credit than at might first appear.
Comment linking /
on “Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux”Submitted A year since Proton's launch as a story · 4 points
HN discussion59 EUR for a year of non-commercial usage [1] is steep IMO. [1] https://www.codeweavers.com/store
Comment linking /store
on “Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000”Submitted Codeweavers and Steam: A Major Milestone as a story · 4 points
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