Re: I wrote about the new GSDE package on the Register

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 08:27, Gregory Casamento
<greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, visually, GSDE is trying to look like OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP.  But, in your 
> article when you refer to GNUstep tries to recreate NeXTSTEP... that 
> statement ENTIRELY belies the fact that we have implemented all of OPENSTEP 
> and are almost done with major portions of Cocoa/macOS up to and including 
> Catalina.

This is the core of the issue that I have been trying to get across
for, what, a decade now?

If you want people to use your software, to adopt it and try it and
develop for it, then you have to find a way to appeal to as many
people as possible.

That means, whatever your tool, the problem is not about programmers.
It is not about APIs.

It is about *users*.

Over 2/3 of the human race uses computers. Of those 6 billion or so
people, 99.99% are not programmers. They are users.

If you aim your message at programmers, you are excluding all but a
tiny rounding error of any potential market.

APIs and so on are irrelevant abstractions to users.

GSDE is a desktop environment, one which happens to contain some
development tools. It's what I've been saying GNUstep needed for half
this century so far.

Forget anything to do with developers. Talking about the name of a set
of APIs that _the company which created those APIs_ stopped using over
a decade ago is the definition of futility.

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