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Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by wingo on Monday July 27, 2009 @06:04AM (#725640)
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

Written mostly in javascript, with dynamically-generated bindings to GTK+ et al.

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Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by Tichy on Monday July 27, 2009 @08:08AM (#725715)
Interesting, though ultimately I would prefer to spend resources on cross platform stuff.
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Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by wingo on Monday July 27, 2009 @11:05AM (#725960)
You might not want to hack on that project, but in all cases you have to install a runtime, be it a web server or xulrunner or whatever.

GTK+ can be a pita to install, but it's as cross-platform as anything else.

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Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by Tichy on Monday July 27, 2009 @11:11AM (#725974)
Then I misunderstood, I thought it was a Gnome only project. GTK would be OK.
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