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They wouldn’t have needed Apple’s collaboration to build a new UI framework on Obj-C, just like nobody needed SCO’s permission to build Linux. GTK’s two origin
by pavlov 4y ago
They wouldn’t have needed Apple’s collaboration to build a new UI framework on Obj-C, just like nobody needed SCO’s permission to build Linux.
GTK’s two original sins were 1) cloning Motif in the first place, 2) doubling down on that design instead of throwing away GIMP as the prototype that it was.
They’ve been forever reliving the 1990s due to these bad choices.
- vkazanov 4y agoYet here they are, alive and kicking, while objc is gone, motif gone, etc. Long live gnome, long live gimp, long live gtk!
- pavlov 4y agoIf you’re happy with this also-ran forever-4th-place-in-everything outcome, good for you. Long live the king of the desert island. It could have been a lot more though.
- torstenvl 4y agoGone? There are several orders of magnitude more users of Obj-C software than there are users of Gnome.