• @priapus
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    154 months ago

    Closer to 50/50, and other parts of the GNOME desktop like mutter, are largely C. Saying the entire GNOME desktop is mostly JS is silly.

    • ara
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      14 months ago

      No one here said GNOME desktop is mostly JS.

      • @priapus
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        14 months ago

        You’re right, they said the desktop shell, which is still incorrect, but I guess a little less incorrect. My bad.

        • ara
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          14 months ago

          Well, I started this thread saying it runs on JavaScript, and I mean that they need JS for most of the interactions with the desktop, like gesture or mouse events. 😞 Even if most of the code is C, we all know we need to write much many lines of code of C to do the same with JS, so most of the logics on GNOME is computed by JS. We need some rust here. 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀

    • kbal
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      -64 months ago

      On the other hand, saying that there’s way too much javascript in it is objectively factual.

      • @priapus
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        114 months ago

        You don’t get to decide what too much JS in the project is unless you actually work on and have in depth knowledge of the project. I dont like JS, but it has its uses.

        Many people are conflating modern electron bloatware with ‘JS bad’, but things are not that simple.