On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <[email protected]> wrote: > I see this as an inspirational source for those who aim to redesign the web > pages of GNUstep: > > http://elementaryos.org/ > > for those interested: this is GTK based (sadly not GNUstep) > http://elementaryos.org/docs/code/hello-world >
Hi Lars, In fact, Elementary has a lot of strengths, and their designers are thoughtful. They have a vigorous mailing list (like GNUstep does), and good developers (also like GNUstep). But one thing that is different about Elementary is that you can download it, burn it on a cd, stick it in any machine, boot from it, install it on a partition, and use it day-to-day. In fact i used it for about 6 months, and enjoyed it very much. It's ready to go, and no user has to agonize over what system to put it on. And of course if that could be done with GNUstep distro that would be so wonderful, because the ideas in GNUstep are still extremely powerful. (But systems like Elementary are getting better all the time, and they are using a very nice language, vala, to program in. It is written to provide language-level support for the G-object system. It is not as far along as objective-c on NeXTstep was, imvho, but it is getting better.) dan _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
