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Why have no die-hard, many-times-burned Mac fans not yet picked up GNUStep and launchd and polished them into an acceptable replacement for the 2010-era Mac desktop? Most Mac developers don't seem to be that kind of developer. (So much for "Think different"?) It seems clear that the beatings are just going to continue.

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I am not an apple fanboy, but I was under the impression that the major selling point of Apple is that you don't _need_ to be that kind of developer. A lot of things that are very fiddly on Linux just work on macos.

There is Nextspace (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace).

I wish someone like Scott Forestall will come up and make a new, user-friendly OS.

Those are opposite user experiences: the sealed, polished decisions made for you vs. gluing together obsolete technologies. And I say that as somebody who used to be a big WindowMaker fan.

Personal investment into the platform has yielded professional returns. If that return dries up or frustrations continue to mount, you will see migration.

Mac developers are 1 not systems level competent and 2 willingly swallow the lockdown, otherwise they wouldn't be on macs still.

I think that ship sailed after Swift was released and Objective-C/Cocoa were deprecated.

Objective-C and Cocoa are not deprecated.

I guess "deprecated" is a bit strong, but it's definitely on the way out, and Cocoa with it.

https://sandofsky.com/architecture/objective-c-in-a-swift-wo...

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