GNUstep Kickstarter Campaign Launched 131
borgheron writes "A maintainer of GNUstep has launched a Kickstarter campaign to get the resources needed to make GNUstep more complete and bring the implementation to API compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6's Cocoa. This will allow applications for Mac OS X to run on GNU/Linux with a simple recompile using new tools developed by the GNUstep team to directly build from xcodeproj project files. If the Kickstarter project is funded beyond its $50,000 goal, it's possible that WebKit and Darling might also be completed allowing applications built on Mac OS X to run without the need for a recompile... think WINE-like functionality for Mac OS X applications on other platforms... including Windows, Linux, BSD, etc."
GNUStep is pretty useful now, but increased coverage of newer Cocoa APIs would be nice, and Darling in particular is interesting by providing a portable Mach-O binary loader.
Why bother? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Photoshop in Linux? (Score:0, Insightful)
Maybe Dreamweaver as well?
If you're still using Dreamweaver, do the web design world a favor and have a nice big glass of shotgun mouthwash. Sure, it doesn't churn out QUITE the unmaintainable shit that it used to back in the days of "sliced images", but FFS learn to actually code.
Re:Shooting for 10.x? (Score:5, Insightful)
Because a lot of us on Macs are stuck on 10.6 and lots of OS X applications are targeting that group?
Re: Well, someone has to ask... (Score:4, Insightful)
SO you mean, about 15 years ahead of where KDE and Gnome are today? I'm not actually trolling here. This is where NEXT application development was in 1992 [youtube.com].