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250 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | 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]▶

>>45123554 #

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. badsectoracula ◴[05 Sep 25 09:26 UTC] No.45136634[source]▶

>>45126725 #

The other main issue is that GNUstep is incredibly bug prone and fragile. Case in point, two years ago i installed GNUstep from source and then built a pixelart editor called PikoPixel. The app felt very clunky, like all GNUstep apps do (note that i'm using Window Maker as my main WM so GNUstep gets the best environment it can hope for). Then two years later with some OS updates in between it doesn't work anymore.

Meanwhile i'm still using the same mediaplayer binary i built ~7 years ago on a different computer against a C GUI library.

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