It is not about generating code, people just don't get it

--Gustavo

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On 03/05/2013, at 05:33, Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> wrote:

> On 03/05/13 00:34, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 May 2013 16:30:21 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
>> 
>> none of our "users" are programming in javascript... and almost no amount of
>> suggesting changes that. i want to see elev8 used more, but even *WE* don't 
>> use
>> it currently for anything really.
>> 
>> one big issue is that it's just too limited. a small subset of efl is
>> accessible. animators i can tie to elm objects, but i can't use timers. no 
>> jobs.
>> i can't make basic evas rectangles, images, play with evas map, and only a
>> subset of elm widgets are there etc. etc. - i couldn't write efbb in elev8.
>> 
>> there's much more that also just isn't there. at least at this stage i have
>> nothing "trivial" that can fit into what elev8 can do, as anything else i am
>> working on is big and chunky (enlightenment, terminology), and asking others 
>> to
>> fit themselves into the subset of things that elev8 can do is a big ask right
>> now.
>> 
>> also there is just only so much in the way of time and resources to go 
>> around -
>> we can't do everything. while a gui builder that can generate elev8 js has 
>> been
>> discussed and is something no one is against at all, it just isn't the actual
>> task at hand. some other day/time/in the future maybe, but if i had N people
>> available, i'd sooner have them filling out elev8 to cover a much larger 
>> amount
>> of efl's api as per above before then writing a js back-end for the gui 
>> builder
>> as per the original subject (as it'd need a FULL widget set compliment to 
>> work
>> there).
> 
> With that being said, JS output is also planned IIRC, no?
> 
> --
> Tom.
> 
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