On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:20 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Xan Lopez <x...@gnome.org> wrote: > > We don't maintain the runtimes, we maintain the integration between > > those runtimes and the platform. AFAIK we do this for a lot of other > > languages, like Python, Perl, Scheme, Java... > > > > While I agree with the main spirit of your point, the analogy doesn't > *quite* hold because JS defines much less of a platform than those > things (which is the whole point of using JS of course!). > > So with JS, we're defining the module system, and defining the > equivalent of python's "os" module, and so forth.
Which I see as an advantage, because it uses the platform's facilities instead of installing a parallel set of system functions. Xav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list