On 04/20/2011 07:12 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > 4) While I know some GNOME contributors here don't like Mozilla, in > the big picture their mission and culture is *MUCH* more aligned with > ours than Apple, at least
But: (a) WebKit is probably the least Apple-like thing that Apple does (b) It is heavily driven by Google as well, and while that may not be a whole lot better culture-wise, it means that: (c) WebKit's mission is more or less the *intersection* of Apple's and Google's missions, which often (though not always) ends up being pretty close to Mozilla's mission ("the open web"). > Even tougher would be unwinding the Spidermonkey let/const and > generator usage inside gnome-shell, but we dug the hole, we can dig it > out. The flip side of this is that if we fall back to stock javascript, we can start using jslint. > One thing that's worth addressing though (again) is the question "do > we need both Python and JavaScript?". The uptake of both seed and gjs > has been relatively low; lower than Python at least for scripting > GNOME apps. This is at least in part because of the gjs-vs-seed confusion, and in part because the-GNOME-platform-via-gobject-introspection is still not as full-featured as the various python libraries, although it's getting better (as g-i improves, and as libraries improve their bindability). -- Dan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list