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Dissent on Gnome’s Javascript decision

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KC
Keith Curtis
Feb 6, 2013

It is great that Gnome are using a garbage-collected language for as much code as possible. For a component-based shell UI, Javascript is a reasonable choice, and surely better than C, C++, or Java. I realize they started down this road towards Javascript years ago, but I think it is worth re-considering whether they are on the right path.

KC

Keith Curtis

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