Re:GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language
by petercooper on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @04:35AM
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It's been a long time since I looked into GNOME dev but that was the main choice for the last 10 years or so, wasn't it?
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Re:GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language
by ebassi on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @05:27AM
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no, it wasn't - mostly because of political bullcrap coming from the "I'm purer than thou" crowd. obviously, the biased perception that gnome was using C# exclusively was also due to the same crowd.
this also led to the C#/mono platform lagging behind, so that these days writing gnome apps in C# means using deprecated libraries, which is unfortunate.
Re:GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language
by petercooper on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @05:39AM
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Ah right, maybe that's where I got the impression. I used to follow Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza's work in the early/mid 2000s and picked up a 'C# is the future of GNOME' vibe.