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Re:The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS by aphextron on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:40PM (#16041532)
>The solution I want is a Linux OS, a WM with a good, cohesive, long term vision, and an easy way to build apps within at vision — something like a native Electron minus the memory and CPU overhead. I believe Google could do this.

This is literally MacOS/Cocoa/AppKit minus Linux plus BSD

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Re:The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS by jkmcf on Sunday December 31, 2017 @01:51PM (#16042002)
More or less. Not sure about appkit, but the Apple dictatorial control bothers me. E.g., Apple apps on iOS have tight integration unavailable to other apps, and they don’t improve their apps for power users or broader use cases.

Also, the first thing I do on non-GNU/Linux systems is install GNU tools :)

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Re:The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS by aphextron on Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:03PM (#16042079)
>More or less. Not sure about appkit, but the Apple dictatorial control bothers me. E.g., Apple apps on iOS have tight integration unavailable to other apps, and they don’t improve their apps for power users or broader use cases.

This is what drove me away from the whole ecosystem, iOS included. The fact that all of their APIs are closed source headers only is a complete nightmare. I'd rather spend my time working with open Web standards than digging through some arcane Apple manual page.

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Re:The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS by lobster_johnson on Sunday December 31, 2017 @01:50PM (#16041991)
Or GNUStep, if it had ever taken off. API-compatible with lots of Cocoa code. Unfortunately, it's not a complete reimplementation, and nobody uses it.
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