Editing GNUstep (section)

{{Short description|Open source widget toolkit and application development tools}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = GNUstep
| logo = GNUstep logo.svg
| logo size = 100px
| screenshot = Gnustep.png
| screenshot size = 300px
| caption = Window Maker and a variety of applications were developed with the GNUstep libraries, including a [[gomoku]] game, [[calculator]], and [[TextEdit]].
| developer = GNUstep Developers
| latest_release_version = make 2.9.2, base 1.30.0, gui 0.31.1, back 0.31.0
| latest_release_date = {{start date and age|2024|06|06}}
| latest preview version = on the GitHub software repository
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| programming language = [[Objective-C]]
| genre = [[Widget toolkit]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License]] for the applications <br /> [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] for the libraries.
| website = {{URL|https://www.gnustep.org/}}
}}

'''GNUstep''' is a [[free software]] implementation of the [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]] (formerly [[OpenStep]]) [[Objective-C]] [[Software framework|frameworks]], [[widget toolkit]], and application development tools for [[Unix-like]] [[operating system]]s and [[Microsoft Windows]]. It is part of the [[GNU Project]].

GNUstep features a cross-platform, object-oriented [[Integrated development environment|IDE]].  Apart from the default [[Objective-C]] interface, GNUstep also has [[language binding|bindings]] for [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Ruby programming language|Ruby]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gnustep.org/experience/RIGS.html|title=GNUstep Developer Tools - RIGS|website=www.gnustep.org|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref> [[GNU Guile]] and [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051218234159/http://www.gnustep.it/marko/GScheme GScheme<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051218234159/http://www.gnustep.it/marko/GScheme/ |date=2005-12-18 }}</ref> The GNUstep developers track some additions to Apple's [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]] to remain compatible. The roots of the GNUstep application interface are the same as the roots of Cocoa: [[NeXTSTEP]] and [[OpenStep]]. GNUstep thus predates Cocoa, which emerged when [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] acquired [[NeXT]]'s technology and incorporated it into the development of the original [[macOS|Mac OS X]], while GNUstep was initially an effort by [[GNU Project|GNU]] developers to replicate the technically ambitious NeXTSTEP's programmer-friendly features.