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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by randallu on Thursday September 13, 2012 @12:12PM (#4516951)
WebOS was written in C++, eventually with a lot of Qt (the window manager, the dock, system dialogs, etc). The apps were written as web pages, though.

FxOS is all web pages (even the IME!) though currently has the same basic PalmOS launcher model that iOS and Android have; no multitasking window manager.

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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by lsh on Sunday September 16, 2012 @06:49AM (#4528882)
A core set of the apps were written in HTML+JS using the Enyo framework, but apps can also be written quite easily in C++, too.

Enyo2 was released recently and is being incorporated into Open WebOS: http://enyojs.com/

How anyone can stand to use javascript for anything significant is beyond me, but Enyo, and hopefully whatever FxOS uses, can have substantial parts of an app's logic written in something like Coffeescript or Clojurescript.

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