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		actionfromafar 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical rep... IMHO they missed the boat - they should have pushed Objective C and later Swift. Lots of Mac / iOS developers were curious about Elementary when it was new.

janc_ 5 months ago [–]

They forked off from Gnome, and thus used Gobject/Gtk, which probably wouldn't fit so well with Objective C & its decendents…

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