"Ars takes a close look at Seed, a new framework that allows software developers to build GTK+ applications with JavaScript. The popular web scripting language could soon become the dominant application extension language on the Linux desktop."
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2008-12-09
it could change the way that GNOME programmers approach application development. JavaScript could be used as high-level glue for user interface manipulation and rapid prototyping while Vala or C are used for performance-sensitive tasks.
so.. nothing python or such couldn't do?
I personally find javascript hard and messy inc omparison
Member since:2009-01-19
Member since:2005-11-13
Yeah, I think so too. If I could learn one language and use it to build (small) desktop applications as well as web applications, even I would be interested in that. Of course, there's Java, but that's more of a full-blown programming language, whereas I'm thinking more along the lines of a dynamic scripting language. If you could program client-side web stuff with python, that would be the camel's nuts
Edited 2009-01-19 23:27 UTC
Member since:2005-07-24
In its current form, and given the way it's used (clumsily), the tasks it's being used for (mainly manipulating DOM trees) and the platform it's used on (browsers), sure, it's generally a mess.
However, work on the next version of javascript is ongoing, and promises some *very* compelling features (see for example http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2504 : highlights for me are optional typing, and support for both nominal and structural types).
