Gnome Goes JavaScript

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 12:16:05PM -0500, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> Per Slashdot:
> 
> "Much to most programmers' shock and dismay Gnome has made JavaScript
> its main language for apps. It will still support other languages and
> it still supports C for libraries, but for apps it is JavaScript that
> rules. JavaScript seems to be a good choice for Gnome 3, as the shell
> UI is written in the language. It is also consistent with the use of
> JavaScript in WinRT, Chrome Apps, and FirefoxOS apps, and generally
> the rise of web apps. As you might expect, the initial reactions are
> of horror at the idea that JavaScript has been selected rather than
> the favorite language of the commenter. There is a great deal of
> ignorance about (and prejudice against) JavaScript, which is often
> regarded as an incomplete toy language rather than the elegant and
> sparse language that it actually is."
> 
> <http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/02/04/1819231/gnome-goes-javascript>
> 
> I'd love to hear perspectives on this.  (I'm a little biased in that I
> actually like JavaScript and think this is the right way to go. ;-)

I have yet to see elegant javascript.  coffeescript is pretty elegant
and compiles to javascript.

Of course having already given up on gnome 3, this isn't going to change
anything.

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