Tell HN: Nextspace (NeXTSTEP-like DE) stopped development as author in Ukraine

12 points

4 years ago

AFAIK, NEXTSPACE is the only NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment that is (was) actively being developed (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace). The author had been working on this project for more than 5 years and he had been pushing code almost every single day.

Unfortunately, he had to stop development since Russia invasion of Ukraine, as he lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. He said he was OK and would like to continue development "after Ukraine’s victory" (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/discussions/412). But that was about 4 months ago.

As someone who really likes NeXTSTEP and hopes NEXTSPACE to succeed, the current situation is sad.

Just wanted to inform the crowds at HN about this.

:wq