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How to update OpenStep as a development environment?

A long time ago, Game Developer magazine published an article about ID Software and their DOOM game. The article ID states that they used the NeXT Step machine for development using the GNU GCC cross-compiler. Citation:

By writing to ANSI C on NeXTStep, Id Software can develop and test in the real world of programmers. Then, using the network, developers are able to send code to a test PC to launch DOS and recompile what they are working on in order to run the game in their natural environment.

NextStep evolved into Cocoa, while other OSs grew up with other user interface interfaces, GTK, Qt, MFC, etc.

Saying that a person wants to get a "real development environment", did the OpenStep project evolve in such a way that it can compete with Cocoa / MFC / GTK / Qt?

Judging only by the screenshots of the project, it seems that the infrastructure is stopped on time, widgets are not as good as those of other frameworks that I spoke about, but ugliness is not a measure of software development, like support, maturity and completeness of OpenStep widgets?

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Cocoa has OpenStep. This is a direct descendant. OpenStep became Yellow Box, became Cocoa.

By asking "the OpenStep project has evolved," it looks like you're asking about GNUstep , not OpenStep.

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The "real development environment" at the time meant "something better than DOS." NextStep and OpenStep are ahead of their time, but a lot of time has passed since then.

Cocoa on Mac OS X is a great development environment, but it is clearly not superior to other currently popular development environments. (This is better than MFC or VB6, but Java and .NET developers would not be impressed.)

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