Re:GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language
by rdtsc on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @09:32AM
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> The native desktop devs who don't think JavaScript is a good choice for a native platform as there's already a big eco system of C/C++ code supporting
Not only that there is a sane language like Python, there is Vala as well. There are already are good binding for both. GNOME should have marketed the hell of out of Vala, I think.
I think GNOME should have played ball better with Ubuntu. Now they sort of got pushed to the back a bit and they are trying to be "cool" again. But as you said, there is only one latest cool platform and that's the browser.
If I want to write a "app" for GNOME I would write it for Ubuntu's Software Store, I wouldn't write it for GNOME desktop.
Not only that there is a sane language like Python, there is Vala as well. There are already are good binding for both. GNOME should have marketed the hell of out of Vala, I think.
I think GNOME should have played ball better with Ubuntu. Now they sort of got pushed to the back a bit and they are trying to be "cool" again. But as you said, there is only one latest cool platform and that's the browser.
If I want to write a "app" for GNOME I would write it for Ubuntu's Software Store, I wouldn't write it for GNOME desktop.