> GObject is a real tragedy of the NIH syndrome in open source. It is, but I wouldn't look at Objective-C as the previous invention. X11 already hat the Toolki

> GObject is a real tragedy of the NIH syndrome in open source. It is, but I wouldn't look at Objective-C as the previous invention. X11 already hat the Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt), and it's not like they were unknown to the developers, the first version of Gimp having been written in Motif. A new toolkit in the vein of Xaw/Motif/OLIT would've been a more immediate choice, but then again, no two persons seem to have the same preferences when it comes to object-orientation. (I'm sitting in the proverbial glasshouse here, having switched my own "let's make some widgets for Qt 0.x" project to "let's reinvent X11 toolkits" in the mid to late 90s)