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by pjmlp 150 days ago
At least they are honest regarding the reasons, not a wall of text to justify what bails down to "because I like it".

Naturally these kinds of having a language island create some attrition regarding build tooling, integration with existing ecosystem and who is able to contribute to what.

So lets see how it evolves, even with my C bashing, I was a much happier XFCE user than with GNOME and GJS all over the place.
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amazari 150 days ago
You know that all the Wayland primitives, event handling and drawing in gnome-shell are handled in C/native code through Mutter, right ? The JavaScript in gnome-shell is the cherry on top for scripting, similar to C#/Lua (or any GCed language) in game engines, elisp in Emacs, event JS in QtQuick/QML.

It is not the performance bottleneck people seem to believe.

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pjmlp 150 days ago
I can dig out the old GNOME tickets and related blog posts...

Implementation matters, including proper use of JIT/AOT toolchains.

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joe_mamba 149 days ago
>I can dig out the old GNOME tickets and related blog posts...

That's the easiest way you can win any argument on gnome. You're going straight for the nuclear option.

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ChocolateGod 149 days ago
It has been the case that stalls in the GJS land can stall the compositor though, especially if it's during a GC cycle.
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silon42 149 days ago
is GJS in the compositor?
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