Hoping we're not too off topic for the list, if so, someone please say
so.
That said...
I tried Cocotron, and I really liked it in theory. Yes, the apps it
made looked more native than the ones from GNUstep. However, as soon
as I wanted to get beyond making a text editor (Yes, specifically, I
wanted threading and socket support) the whole thing kinda fell
apart. Everything in NSTask, NSThread, NSSocket* NSHttp* etc were all
nothing but stubs.
To be clear, if Cocotron had these, it would be close to a no brainer
big win, but it didn't. GNUstep has most of these.
For the record, I'm not affiliated with either of these libraries, my
only interest in them has been in porting from Mac OS X, and in a
possible path to be able to write Objective-C exclusively instead of C+
+ or Java.
So I guess the point is... all of these options are somewhat crippled
and incomplete in different areas depending on what you're trying to
accomplish and how forgiving your customer is. My advice would be to
try them both and see which one works for the specific problem domain
you are trying to solve.
I don't think that either solution deserves lauding as being somehow
morally or technically "better" they're just different. Both
incomplete. Both open source.
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