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250 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pjmlp ◴[04 Sep 25 04:21 UTC] No.45123554[source]▶
GNUStep is a good example that the bare bones language and compiler being open source it is not enough, when everything else doesn't come along.

Saying this as someone that used Afterstep and Windowmaker alongside GNUStep, and did seat a few times on the GNUStep room at FOSDEM.

Last time I checked was at the level of OS X Panther, and modern Objective-C still wasn't supported.

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paride5745 ◴[04 Sep 25 12:56 UTC] No.45126725[source]▶
The main issue of GNUStep was that, when KDE appeared, the GNU project used GTK+ as a base for GNOME, instead of GNUStep. This basically killed the momentum behind GNUStep as a base for the official GNU Desktop. It is sad because GNUStep is incredible, the IDEs alone are more advanced than anything in GNOME-space, even today. Oh well...
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1. deltarholamda ◴[04 Sep 25 14:23 UTC] No.45127610[source]▶
There's a lot of "oh well" in the tech space. I was watching something on Pick OS yesterday, which I hadn't even heard of, which was a kind of filesystem/database/OS all together that was, if the comments on the video mean anything, quite loved.

But like BeOS (also loved) and other things just never got traction for various reasons.

I used Windowmaker for a lot of years as it was lightweight and I liked the UI, and always wondered "why not this? why ape Windows of all things?" The answer is usually something along the lines of "that's what people know," and I get it, but still.

I guess I miss the times when computers were cool.