On 29 May 2008, at 17:12, James Cornell wrote:

> Aside from performance difference, it might had been better for us  
> running on Mono CLR or JVM, since at least it would compile and  
> work.  Then again, no one can tell us why they switched to C++, not  
> much of GNOME has gone that direction, why GSM?

Benoit gives some of his reasons in this thread:
<http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2007-November/msg00178.html 
 >

Basically, it sounds like he just finds it more productive.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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