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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: 0.253s | 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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1. apple4ever ◴[05 Sep 25 00:50 UTC] No.45133901[source]▶
It's also an example of how stubborn people can ruin a project. While it's nice to see the old NextStep GUI, it's from the 1990's. They never made any effort to improve. They never made any effort to integrate nicely into the rest of the Linux world. They never made any effort to add new Objective-C features.

Its entirely stagnated.