Care to share the Swift port?

Happy new years!

I didn’t even know you could favorite…

A lot of little projects like this that end up going bust because of the cost of running the business.

Still cool that projects like this are launched.

Not OP here, but I saw a bunch of traffic coming to my website, so I checked and found this post ;)

I try to keep things lean. Reduce fixed costs, especially server costs, since I want to keep this running 10 years AFTER I sell the last display.

I outsource some stuff but I make sure everything can be scaled down when I the business is slow.

Will this approach work with image generation models?

Why does this look like it’s from the 80’s still?

Because it’s the free (like freedom not beer) version of something from the 80s.

The interface is from NeXT OS, which as a company was led by Steve Jobs.

The underlying architecture of NeXT was largely adopted into OS X and iOS.

The GUI appearance evokes nostalgia for those that used it (the very first web browser was written within NeXT).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP

I would wish they'd pick something based on whiteish background instead of gray (white like the early Mac OS X versions would be nice, don't need pinstripes.)

Some people like dark themes, others like light themes, so gray is the middle ground :-P.

FWIW GNUstep is themable so it should be possible to customize it. Though i'm not aware of any that follows modern trends, but at least it is possible to make it kinda sorta like a broken telephone version of early Mac OS X using the Rik theme[0] (the screenshot also seems to be using a custom theme and setup for Window Maker too and judging from the shadows it most likely also uses Compiz as a compositor).

[0] https://github.com/AlessandroSangiuliano/rik.theme

Some like it, but I believe its a big hinderance for wider adoption. Maybe as the older folks age out, there will be some motivation to update the theme again.

(Its a big reason why I stopped contributing to GNUStep, as the resistance to modernize at least a little bit was large).

It's its superiority to modern GUIs that make it appear so

Article sounds like an excuse for billing a client $2500 per day.

Same for me.

I like reading the top stories by points on Hacker News, not necessarily the front page. So I made this app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/helvetica-neue-native-open/i...

Sounds awesome. I'm an iOS developer and hoping to go the same route. Where are you based out of?

Good old NYC.

Should I learn swift if I want to go this route? Or should I focus on something like ReactNative or something else entirely?