• @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      Closer to 50/50, and other parts of the GNOME desktop like mutter, are largely C. Saying the entire GNOME desktop is mostly JS is silly.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          You’re right, they said the desktop shell, which is still incorrect, but I guess a little less incorrect. My bad.

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            11 year ago

            Well, I started this thread saying it runs on JavaScript, and I mean that they need JS for most of the interactions with the desktop, like gesture or mouse events. 😞 Even if most of the code is C, we all know we need to write much many lines of code of C to do the same with JS, so most of the logics on GNOME is computed by JS. We need some rust here. 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀

      • kbal
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        -41 year ago

        On the other hand, saying that there’s way too much javascript in it is objectively factual.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 year ago

          You don’t get to decide what too much JS in the project is unless you actually work on and have in depth knowledge of the project. I dont like JS, but it has its uses.

          Many people are conflating modern electron bloatware with ‘JS bad’, but things are not that simple.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        That page also shows that there is more C. That page is also specifically the shell, not all of the desktop.

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          -31 year ago

          There is less than 4% more code in C than JavaScript. That’s pretty much, many features on the gnome-desktop is using JavaScript too, like gestures and mouse events.