GNOME To Use JavaScript For New User Programs

[jalyst]

KDE is heading in this direction too. How does it compare with QML?

Eh? No they're not, they're very much in the Qt/QML camp, have been for ages. Personally think it's unfortunate that GNOME decided to go this way just because of past (ideological) differences.
They Would've been a great new member to the Qt/QML biosphere/code-base, one that would've become a highly respect contributor, & helped to propel the Qt platform faster & more forcefully.

[Tiger_Coder]

Personally I hate Javascript. But now a days many new programmers are coming from web programming. Even in my country which is a 3rd world country, no of school students know web programming is increasing a lot. I know some people who only learns PHP + HTML + JS + CSS ,without any formal Computer Science/Engineering courses and now earning more then undergraduate engineers. JS(Olso QT's QML) will attract them to target desktop apps.

[a user]

In this case I think the speedup gained from writing everything in C++ (or C, which is more common with GNOME) is more or less negligible.

i don't think so. we are not talking of extensions but of full featured standalone programs.

[kigurai]

I want nothing to do with Javascript. Why not just use Qt?

Trolling much?

After all, actual C++ code is more efficient than any scripting code.

In this case I think the speedup gained from writing everything in C++ (or C, which is more common with GNOME) is more or less negligible.

[mmstick]

I want nothing to do with Javascript. Why not just use Qt? That's my favourite GUI framework; the most fully featured; cross-compile compatible; easy to learn and program; looks perfect in any desktop environment. After all, actual C++ code is more efficient than any scripting code.

[johnny]

Javascript? Why exactly Javascript?
In my opinion it's a horrid language...

Why not Python instead ?

By chance, do they mean HTML+Javascript with "GNOME appliations", or actually Javascript as a stand-alone "program"?

Related:
wat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEgk1Hdze0

this is one gnome dev's take on "why not python"

http://www.j5live.com/2013/02/04/gnome-and-languages/

[Delgarde]

By chance, do they mean HTML+Javascript with "GNOME appliations", or actually Javascript as a stand-alone "program"?

The latter. Remember, this isn't anything new, this just represents a decision to promote it as the language of choice for people wanting to code stuff on Gnome and who don't want to use C. The actual platform has been there for quite a few years - there were JS-based games in the later releases of the Gnome 2 series...

[cardboard]

KDE is heading in this direction too. How does it compare with QML?

[smitty3268]

Javascript has it's uses

It's good for a scripting language that you can code a UI with.

I hope GNOME isn't recommending it's use for full scale apps, though, because javascript does not scale very well. It's going to be a nightmare if you start creating large codebases with it.

[j2723]

Javascript? Why exactly Javascript?
In my opinion it's a horrid language...

Why not Python instead ?

By chance, do they mean HTML+Javascript with "GNOME appliations", or actually Javascript as a stand-alone "program"?

Related:
wat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEgk1Hdze0