Re: GNUstep's lack of progress and Apple's holding back Swift language

[Riccardo Mottola]

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