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250 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.36s | source
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alephnerd ◴[04 Sep 25 03:54 UTC] No.45123378[source]▶
It makes me glad to see Etoile is still around.

I played around with it in HS when it was in it's alpha stages because I wanted to find a Linux distro that had the same polish of MacOS X and on which I could dev Obj-C. It was a good attempt, but sadly I haven't seen any Linux skin or distro that has solved the UX polish issue.

Edit: never mind, Étoilé did die around the time I thought it did in the early 2010s.

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pabs3 ◴[04 Sep 25 04:16 UTC] No.45123523[source]▶
There were commits in 2024:

https://github.com/orgs/etoile/repositories

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1. alephnerd ◴[04 Sep 25 04:28 UTC] No.45123584[source]▶
Just one tiny project. The rest of the Etoile codebase hasn't been touched for at least a decade. Ofc it's not the maintainers fault - it's a FOSS project so imo it's bad form to bemoan release cycles if not contributing as projects are hard even if fully funded.