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plaurent / gnustep-build

gnustep-build

Scripts for building the latest possible GNUstep on your system

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What it is

Scripts for building the latest possible GNUstep on your system

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

So I use GNUstep and I really like it. It is not an Apple emulator—it is an OPENstep emulator and so it implements the amazing Cocoa API and many mac/iOS frameworks can be used…

mucholove used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-08-10 07:33:11 UTC to 2021-12-13 23:24:57 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012342021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 92021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 112021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 commentsDec 13

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Aug 92021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 162021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 232021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 302021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 62021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 132021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 202021-09-20 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 272021-09-27 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 42021-10-04 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 112021-10-11 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 182021-10-18 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 252021-10-25 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 12021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 82021-11-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 152021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 222021-11-22 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 292021-11-29 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 62021-12-06 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 132021-12-13 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-20 00:00:00 UTC413

What Hacker News says

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mucholove·Dec 13, 2021Recommendation phrase
So I use GNUstep and I really like it. It is not an Apple emulator—it is an OPENstep emulator and so it implements the amazing Cocoa API and many mac/iOS frameworks can be used server side with minimal porting. This makes it easy for what I intend to keep as a one person project forever or as long as Apple continues to support Objective-C. You want to know an unpopular opinion?? I love Objective-C and I think it is better—way better than Swift. And—if you have discipline, the preprocessor is excellent. So while many might say GNUstep is buggy, it is working for several of us—and happily so. I do agree that the homepage is terrible and that what should be done is put some installer scripts so you can start using it immediately. An Ubuntu installation following the corresponding script here is foolproof: https://github.com/plaurent/gnustep-
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