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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: 0.714s | source
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fithisux ◴[04 Sep 25 04:55 UTC] No.45123718[source]▶
GNUStep lost its opportunity to use D to go further and stuck with old ObjC.

Very good piece of software though.

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1. gnoack ◴[04 Sep 25 06:54 UTC] No.45124347[source]▶
Etoile had its own Smalltalk dialect back in the day, Pragmatic Smalltalk. This was a Smalltalk based on the Objective-C runtime, based on an OMeta implementation and a LLVM backend. David Chisnall, who created it at the time, ended up getting involved more in LLVM in the long run, I believe.
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2. fithisux ◴[04 Sep 25 12:20 UTC] No.45126421[source]▶
Indeed, still gcc objC has not been updated but D which shares a lot in gcc 15 was upgraded to the latest release.

Pragmatic SmalltaLk can still rely on LLVM since there is LDC.

No objection against objC but on windows it is not the best.

D has 3 compilers with similar or beter ergonomics than ObjC