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OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20797/Building_Desktop_Linux_Applications_with_JavaScript Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 19:12:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com why js? http://www.osnews.com/thread?344356 http://www.osnews.com/thread?344356 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 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_xmv) Comments RE: why js? http://www.osnews.com/thread?344368 http://www.osnews.com/thread?344368 I agree with you. I believe they are targeting the large base of web and widget/gadget developers who already know JavaScript and just want to write small apps. Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fgxh298) Comments One word http://www.osnews.com/thread?344393 http://www.osnews.com/thread?344393 Plasma

:) Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shiny) Comments RE: why js? http://www.osnews.com/thread?344400 http://www.osnews.com/thread?344400 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). Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raboof) Comments RE[2]: why js? http://www.osnews.com/thread?344421 http://www.osnews.com/thread?344421

I agree with you. I believe they are targeting the large base of web and widget/gadget developers who already know JavaScript and just want to write small apps.

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 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WorknMan) Comments