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by iso8859-1 807 days ago
GNOME uses a lot of JavaScript nowadays, so large parts of an application can be interpreted. Here are the GJS docs, it gives you an idea of how much JavaScript there is: https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/
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nozzlegear 807 days ago
Does Elementary use Gnome? I thought it was something else. It's been years since I've been on Elementary, but it didn't feel like it was just a Gnome skin iirc.
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tcmart14 807 days ago
To my understanding, Pantheon is built from scratch, but it is still GTK. So it has a lot of similar fundamentals as GNOME.
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pacifika 807 days ago
it uses pantheon
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treyd 807 days ago
Haven't they gradually been moving away from gjs though?
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