Hi,
Maxthon Chan wrote:
Dear fellows:
Is it possible that Apple is holding Swift from being released to public,
despite its popularity and demand, have a bit of reason in GNUstep’s lack of
progress? Our libraries is still at the level of Lion maybe Snow Leopard, and
obviously that won’t be able to support running Swift code.
I would not say Swifs delay has anything to do with GNUstep. It is just
because it sucks, useless and done just for "we have a new proprietary
language that looks cool and lures young developers and locks them in".
GNUstep's lack of progress is on one side just perceived, because there
is slow progress. On the other side, the current state of AppKit is
already very powerful: you just need to use it! What sense has to
continue to add up new kits and methods, when what you need is having
apps using them?
Also, as stated many times: certain things that need to be fixed or
completed in our AppKit are not easy tasks, e.g. Printing, TextTables or
SmallWebKit.
For most developers it is a "fix or implement what I need" priority, not
just a badge "we are 10.x or 10.y" compatible. And of course if few
people write, enhance or port their apps, there is little need.
roll up your sleeves..... and start Emacs/Vi/ProjectCenter/XCode....
Riccardo
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