[gcasa]

That is precisely why... it's new ground. It's fun. It's interesting. Why write applications (or, in your words "bikeshedding" -- an interesting term, I had to look it up. :))... because it's a chance to create something totally new. The mission is two fold:

1) Bring the elegance of easy development to every other operating system... and 2) Give Apple developers someplace else to deploy their applications.

GNUstep is meant to be a drop in replacement for Cocoa. By Cocoa I mean Foundation and AppKit, not all of the Core this and Core that libraries. We have those, but they are less mature than Foundation and AppKit. GNUstep is also themable, as I have pointed out in other responses.

GC

[inDigiNeous]

Well, that is a noble goal. Hope you can manage even portion of it. Would be nice to have a way to deploy macOS applications on other platforms, but seeing it is already difficult enough to make sure macOS applications even work on different versions of macOS, that is a difficult task to achieve.

But godspeed to your project, Objective-C, Cocoa and the whole NeXTSTep visual identity is a nice combo.