Heron's Perch

The answer to bad AI-assisted contributions is not a purity test.

When NeXT still existed and the black hardware was a thing, Steve Jobs made the announcement that OPENSTEP would be created and that the object model, not the operating system and not the hardware, was the important thing.

A little history first.

Recently, I saw this article regarding ObjCs "end of life" from JetBrains.

Some interesting notes.

As the much villified theme for star trek enterprise says "its been a long road getting from there to here" i am almost done with all of the work that needed to be done to get us to Catalina compatibility in GNUstep.

I have worked hard to get it to this point, but all of the classes in Catalina are now present in GNUstep's base implementation.

For the record, when I say "modern" I do NOT mean the current, old, NeXTSTEP based theme with new widgets.

Back in July Apple promised to open source Swift. :) Well, Apple?

As announced on their blog and on WWDC, Swift 2.0 will be going open source: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?

Recently, I had a discussion with RMS about being a speaker for Free Software.

I really do hate being right sometimes.

My personal todo list on GNUstep at the moment in no particular order: XIB v5 support, currently working on this.

I wanted to make this post to make it clear to the community regarding GNUstep's position on the new Swift language.

Swift is a new programming language developed by Apple as a replacement for Objective-C.

Here are the latest stats from Ohloh. :) 30 Day SummaryOct 2 2013 — Nov 1 2013 145 Commits 9 Contributors 12 Month SummaryNov 1 2012 — Nov 1 2013 1195 CommitsUp +159 (15%) from previous 12 months 17 ContributorsDown -2 (10%) from previous 12 months

I started a GNUstep Kickstarter campaign, here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/203272607/gnustep-project Please go and take a look and contribute if you can.

Apple's current status with their development site illustrates just one of the many issues with walled gardens.

Myth #1: GNUstep doesn't care about or implement any of the Cocoa frameworks or classes As illustrated by some of the comments here, people still don't understand, really, what GNUstep is all about.

1 ANNOUNCE ********** This is version 1.2.20 of Gorm. 1.1 What is Gorm?

1 ANNOUNCE ********** This is version 0.23.1 of the GNUstep GUI library (`gnustep-gui'). 1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Library?

1 Announcement ************** The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.24.4, is now available. 1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?

1 Announcement ************** The GNUstep Makefile Package version 2.6.4 is now available. 1.1 What is the GNUstep makefile package?

Viking by Brilliant Service is using GNUstep in the Objective-C based software for their Head Mounted Device, pictured here: Their website is here. :) I'm very happy to see GNUstep being used in so many new and different places.

1 Announcement ************** The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.24.3, is now available. 1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?