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#Q: Why is #GNUStep stuck looking like 1990s #OpenStep?
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Show threadSteven G. HarmsNov 27

@DLC I have so many thoughts on this. I’m <30 days away from porting NextSpace to #freebsd and let me just say: hard stuff is hard and easy stuff is hard too and basic stuff is quirky makes it hard to get anything done on a “Honey, are you sure you want to keep doing this” time scale compatible with hobbyist practice.

And I could not have done it without ai and I can be honest here. If you’re a no AI purist (no shade), it gets another order of magnitude harder bc the docs are assholes.

Show threadSteven G. HarmsNov 27

@DLC maybe the big brains at the Gershwin project [1] figured out a better model, but for me, doing FreeBSD-nextspace has been hard. Every few steps I’d slide off the (oh I can port some shell scripts and libraries) to “do you know how Art versus Cairo does rendering?” And then you’re right back to what plist or GNU make file fuckery is required to leverage this change.

TLDR: hard and impenetrable stack with huge time commitment.

1. https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop

GitHub - gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop: Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers

Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers - gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop

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