On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 22:05, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > > For the end-user how just wants to install the applications, which is what we > are here discussing, doesn't care the runtime and language used, they just > want to install and run the packages.
No, I disagree. There remains a huge amount of interest in Linux desktops. Far more than on any other free Unix variant. There are old and new Win95-like desktops, using Qt (old KDE, new LXQt), Gtk (old MATE, XFCE; new, Cinnamon), and EFL (Enlightenment, Moksha) and other more niche toolkits such as FLTK (EDE). There are new very-vaguely Mac or Mac OS X-like desktops, e.g. Pantheon (Elementary OS), Unity/Lomiri/Unity X (UBPorts, Ubuntu Unity) There are attempted independent desktops (e.g. Budgie from Solus) There's a lot of noise out there. A lot of interest. GNUstep also has a packaging system, which is the reason I discussed it in my article. If you are wondering how to "market" it _to programmers_ these days, then I suspect the answer lies in supporting newer languages than Obj-C. Swift is the obvious one: https://github.com/apple/swift-system Ones that might interest people in RAD and so on... • Kotlin perhaps? • Python, obviously • Rust and Go up to a point -- trendy but maybe not so much for GUI apps? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
