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10 Years of OpenStep
tarzeau writes "Today, the OpenStep API celebrates its 10th anniversary. What started out as a joint adventure of NeXT and SUN to define an application development standard that would run on all machines, making 'write once, compile everywhere' a reality, is still unfolding within the vivid and active community of GNUstep, old NeXT and Apple lovers.
The magic 10 appears in GNUstep's current 1.10.x release and in Apple's Mac OS X 'Cocoa' release. Programmers worldwide can develop their programs on Mac OS, Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, and with a couple of hurdles -- even on Windows. This solid and well-defined standard is reaching out to the world of software development, slowly but surely.
Program your applications in days or weeks, rather than years or never. Use the advanced API of a development framework that hasn't needed significant modification for 10 years, because it rocks, is stable and just works."
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Welcome to 1993.
1st: OpenStep was a hack to run NeXT programs on Solaris. Never let that out of your thoughts, because it explains why OpenStep software is NOT 100% code-compatible with OSE -- which was OpenStep for Windows NT. FURTHERMORE, OpenStep sure as hell isn't being actively developed any more -- GNUStep is forking farther and farther away from OpenStep, mostly because Apple has a hammerlock on it and they aren't letting up.
And as for the early-nineties looks: don't let the GNUstep guys fool you. Yeah, it's themeable, but it's not flexible.
Besides, if you have to skin an application, you're already a step behind real API kits.
Hmm, this sounds familiar.. as if I had heard the same sentence many times, but never when speaking about openstep. Could it be that they never heard about Java and C#? Let the the thing die as everybody knows it is already dying...