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Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

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250 points pabs3 | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | source
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tombert ◴[04 Sep 25 04:30 UTC] No.45123598[source]▶
I have never played with GNUStep. By the time I actually started real work as a professional software person (2011) it was already kind of considered a joke, so I never bothered learning how to use it.

It bothers me a bit, though. Developing for desktop Linux is still a pain in the ass, and I really wish the Linux community had agreed on One Desktop Framework To Rule Them All, and I think GNUStep could have been that framework if the community had been willing to embrace it.

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1. LeFantome ◴[04 Sep 25 05:44 UTC] No.45123951[source]▶
The founder of the GNOME project founded Mono to be the “One Desktop Framework To Rule Them All”. It did not work out.
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2. danieldk ◴[04 Sep 25 06:02 UTC] No.45124052[source]▶
That was to be expected, there was a lot of resistance against using C# because Microsoft tried to destroy Linux in various ways. Toolkit-wise, the Mono on Linux stack used Gtk+. So given the C#-distrust it was easier for people to use C, Perl, Python, or later Vala.