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points by Grosvenor 3 days ago | 0 comments

The Desktop GUI was perfected with NeXTStep in 1990. Though some might say Smalltalk in 1984 (modulo some nice artwork and colours).

We could even have unified desktop.mobile codebases, with different GUI layouts. 280 North's objective-J/Cappuccino proved this.

IDK what we're even doing anymore.

[–] NetMageSCW 3 days ago

The early Mac made huge functional improvements over the Smalltalk GUI, improvements still used today.

[–] nxobject 1 day ago

Hmm… I’ll say I’m not the biggest fan of the empty chasms of space left by the docks and menu windows. As much as NS/OS got right, they really think people would want to maximize their windows.

[–] majorchord 3 days ago

> IDK what we're even doing anymore.

I would say people are just disagreeing with you that the situation is actually so black and white.