This is technically, true, but... > if the APIs are there ... The APIs are exactly what aren't there. That is, the runtime APIs are now there, but the framewo

This is technically, true, but... > if the APIs are there ... The APIs are exactly what aren't there. That is, the runtime APIs are now there, but the framework APIs aren't. GNUstep's runtime just gained some language/runtime APIs, that is very low level features that appeared in Apple's recent updates to their implementation of the Objective-C language & runtime. This is a very different matter from the gargantuan frameworks (Cocoa, AppKit, UIKit) which Apple has built atop Objective-C. These frameworks are the APIs that should be "there" to allow doing "a lot of the dev with GNUstep"— an they are a long way from being implemented by GNUstep, but some are indeed being worked on.