ShadowsocksX-NG is the new ShadowsocksX, a secure socks5 proxy for accessing restricted sites or services on macOS. ShadowsocksX-NG was created separately from the original implementation as there had been too much unused code and dependencies of the ss-local source code in the original that had to be maintained. As such it was difficult to update.
ShadowsocksX-NG has just a copy of ss-local from Homebrew, and its GUI code has been rewritten in Swift. It now runs as a background service rather than an in-app process, so the ss-local may still be running even after you quit the app.
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