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> 10-15 years ago, having a fully baked, first class, slavishly source compatible implementation of GNUstep with broad adoption throughout Linux land would have likely been a game changer.

I think that GNUstep has actually been around since the mid- or late-90s — but it was never a game changer. I don't know why really (was it 'fully-baked' and 'first-class'?), although for my part I just never found a reason to use it.




I don't think it ever reached the level of maturity of GTK/Gnome and Qt/KDE at the time.

If it did, the GNUstep desktop could have gained users (WindowMaker was very popular, me included) and developers would have got interest in it.

That didn't happen.




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