On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Jamie McCracken <
[email protected]> wrote:

> JS, whilst a good glue language, is nevertheless problematic in this it
> appears impotent (no native dbus support nor subclassing). I would only
> recommend it for scripting that does not need dbus. Currently a lot of
> code needs to be written in C to make up for these shortfalls in
> Gnome-Shell so I dont think its a particular good choice. I dont however
> see it as a blocker to gnome-shell acceptance
>

Regarding DBUS, there was a session about that and I blogged about it[1].
DBUS bindings will move in to in Glib/GIO, and by extension, br accessible
via GObject Introspection, and thus any language--including JavaScript--will
have first-class DBUS support for free. So the language is
completely orthogonal to DBUS this-or-that. But we're straying from the
point of this thread.

I would much rather see a discussion about the experience we would like our
users to have when GNOME 3.0 comes out and how Shell will get us there.

[1] http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/76020.html
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