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Linux is more successful on the desktop than it's ever been, and Gnome is largely powered by JavaScript. The Gnome extensions repository is a huge JavaScript s

Linux is more successful on the desktop than it's ever been, and Gnome is largely powered by JavaScript. The Gnome extensions repository is a huge JavaScript success. Never before has WM customization been so accessible. The Universal Windows Platform also has a JavaScript API that is a breeze compared to the old Win32 development process. Electron is good but just the tip of the iceberg. I think it says more that major OSes have bet their future on JavaScript.

tonyedgecombe 10y ago
More likely they see a lot of programmers who only know JavaScript and they want to offer them something.
- lloyd-christmas 10y ago
  Is that a bad thing?
  - tonyedgecombe 10y ago
    No, well programmers just knowing JavaScript is but catering to a wider audience is a good thing.
- glasz 10y ago
  was just about to say: it's not damn javascript, it's the damn developers. it's really becoming like java. pushed every, but the wrong choice on many occasions.
aikah 10y ago
> Linux is more successful on the desktop than it's ever been, and Gnome is largely powered by JavaScript. You mean gjs which is a poor javascript runtime. And Gnome is largely powered by C more than javascript. You may use javascript because Gobject-introspection which is also available for perl and python.
gpderetta 10y ago
Anecdote time: after I did a distupgrade of my kubuntu desktop to the next kubuntu release, kwin kept crashing for some reason, probably due to a botched package update. After attaching gdb to the dying process I found out that it was dying inside a javascript interpreter. Not wanting to know WTF a JS interpreter was doing inside the window manager, I wiped kubuntu, installed plain debian and now I'm happily running xfce on my desktop too. Of course now someone will tell me that xfce has also been similarly infected...
- stonogo 10y ago
  Your whole OS already lost the fight -- polkit config is raw javascript.
  - gpderetta 10y ago
    There is no escape! And turing complete config languages are another evil of their own.
hota_mazi 10y ago
> Linux is more successful on the desktop than it's ever been That's not saying much since Linux is pretty much nonexistent on the desktop.
sidlls 10y ago
No, gnome is "largely" powered by C, like the vast majority of other performant software out there.

tonyedgecombe 10y ago

More likely they see a lot of programmers who only know JavaScript and they want to offer them something.

lloyd-christmas 10y ago
Is that a bad thing?
- tonyedgecombe 10y ago
  No, well programmers just knowing JavaScript is but catering to a wider audience is a good thing.
glasz 10y ago
was just about to say: it's not damn javascript, it's the damn developers. it's really becoming like java. pushed every, but the wrong choice on many occasions.

aikah 10y ago

> Linux is more successful on the desktop than it's ever been, and Gnome is largely powered by JavaScript. You mean gjs which is a poor javascript runtime. And Gnome is largely powered by C more than javascript. You may use javascript because Gobject-introspection which is also available for perl and python.

gpderetta 10y ago

Anecdote time: after I did a distupgrade of my kubuntu desktop to the next kubuntu release, kwin kept crashing for some reason, probably due to a botched package update. After attaching gdb to the dying process I found out that it was dying inside a javascript interpreter. Not wanting to know WTF a JS interpreter was doing inside the window manager, I wiped kubuntu, installed plain debian and now I'm happily running xfce on my desktop too. Of course now someone will tell me that xfce has also been similarly infected...

stonogo 10y ago
Your whole OS already lost the fight -- polkit config is raw javascript.
- gpderetta 10y ago
  There is no escape! And turing complete config languages are another evil of their own.

hota_mazi 10y ago

> Linux is more successful on the desktop than it's ever been That's not saying much since Linux is pretty much nonexistent on the desktop.

sidlls 10y ago

No, gnome is "largely" powered by C, like the vast majority of other performant software out there.