On Nov 12, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
As for the KDE guys... they've got lots of projects implemented in
languages other than C++, but they seem to prefer it for their core
components. That aside, you have to ask yourself, given their
inherently
flawed choice of language tools, why they have been so successful as
compared to say the GNUStep project, which even had an initial inertia
advantage over KDE in the beginning.
I think the main problem with GNUStep getting traction was that they
were trying to copy, as closely as possible, the NeXTStep APIs. KDE
was really starting from scratch and leveraging an existing toolkit
(Qt).
It seems, from what I've seen, that projects which focus on _copying_
another project always have very low momentum and not much creativity,
whereas projects that start from scratch move a lot faster and tend to
have lots of people experimenting with them.
Gregory
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