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Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by crazychrome on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:47AM (#9075010)
elementary os is quite stable. the only problem i have w/ it is the dev team promoting yet another lang to code apps. why not rust/nim/go?
Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by vezzy-fnord on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:51PM (#9075529)
Vala predates all these, and it's been a de facto GNOME standard for a while now.
Re:Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux by crazychrome on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:49PM (#9076929)
The last time I heard from GNOME was about javascript binding. I think the choosing of programming language in this age is more to do with marketing. Piggyback is the right way.