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+Cocoa-rs
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+This crate provides Rust bindings to Cocoa for OSX. It's dual-licensed MIT /
+Apache 2.0. If you'd like to help improve cocoa-rs, check out [the Servo
+contributing guide](https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)!