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Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

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250 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.342s | 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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totallykvothe ◴[04 Sep 25 03:56 UTC] No.45123385[source]▶
What are your gripes with Elementary? I personally use KDE now, but I used to use Elementary a while ago, and it was very polished
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1. actionfromafar ◴[04 Sep 25 07:48 UTC] No.45124717[source]▶
Elementary was/is perfectly positioned to adopt Objective C and now that Swift is open source, it too.

Ideally it would have adopted gnustep too but I understand that might have been a tall order to get working. But adopting Objective C and now Swift should have been a no-brainer, at least as a first class supported way of interacting with the APIs, if they didn't want to abandon Vala for themselves.

Instead it's become some kind of Vala Purity Contest it feels like.