Re:GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language
by chris_wot on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @06:33AM
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Not at all. I'm quite serious. I'm actually interested to see if this could be done.
But this is very interesting :-) Can you point to any documentation?
Edit: the issue with porting LibreOffice to Javascript is the sheer size of the codebase. I don't suppose anyone has a block diagram anywhere of OpenOffice/LibreOffice that divides it into modules?
I mean, how do you tackle such a massive codebase? It looks like Michael Meeks has a good idea about this, but the biggest problem with the codebase is that there isn't any high level, quality documentation that shows how it works.
Also... and this is probably just me, but I can't even find the entry-point to the code. That's always been my issue with these apps, but that just shows my exceeding lack of ability in C++ coding I suspect.
But this is very interesting :-) Can you point to any documentation?
Edit: the issue with porting LibreOffice to Javascript is the sheer size of the codebase. I don't suppose anyone has a block diagram anywhere of OpenOffice/LibreOffice that divides it into modules?
I mean, how do you tackle such a massive codebase? It looks like Michael Meeks has a good idea about this, but the biggest problem with the codebase is that there isn't any high level, quality documentation that shows how it works.
Also... and this is probably just me, but I can't even find the entry-point to the code. That's always been my issue with these apps, but that just shows my exceeding lack of ability in C++ coding I suspect.