so, I'm a little confused here - more than a year ago, the Gnome Project picked Javascript as its primary dev language and it was linked here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5169599)
That entire thread is around how Javascript is a bad paradigm for desktop. But, this entire thread is how amazing javascript is going to be for OSX.
Let me add that the JS programming model of Gnome is what powers http://extensions.gnome.org - and I have my own extensions in there. Also (and correct me if I'm wrong) the "GObject Introspection" mechanism is fairly analogous to OSA.
So, is there a underlying technical or implementation issue that makes it good on OSX and bad on Gnome ? use case? technology ? OSA ?
That entire thread is around how Javascript is a bad paradigm for desktop. But, this entire thread is how amazing javascript is going to be for OSX.
Let me add that the JS programming model of Gnome is what powers http://extensions.gnome.org - and I have my own extensions in there. Also (and correct me if I'm wrong) the "GObject Introspection" mechanism is fairly analogous to OSA.
So, is there a underlying technical or implementation issue that makes it good on OSX and bad on Gnome ? use case? technology ? OSA ?