Hi, On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Eduardo Lima Mitev <el...@igalia.com> wrote: > The purpose of this mail is basically to gather the opinion of the > GNOME javascript community regarding the developer story and the > relationship with other javascript communities/efforts. I will be > giving a talk titled "Javascript, the GNOME way" at JSConf.eu [1] next > weekend.
Cool, that is a good place to raise awareness in GNOME! I will be there for the Reject.JS event on Thursday, but unfortunately wasn't able to get a JSConf.eu ticket in time. > 1) Is there motivation/interest in the GNOME javascript community to > implement CommonJS [2] API specs? This would be great. > Just as an exercise/experiment, I recently started writing a wrapper > to gjs that would provide CommonJS support. Code is at [4] and only > 'Modules' (require) is implemented at the moment. I was experimenting with the same thing in Desktop Summit, but didn't have time to finish it. Cool to see others working on it :-) > 2) Do we have an agreement for the long term, about whether gjs or > seed will finally be "the" engine? Node.js is becoming the third engine: https://github.com/creationix/node-gir The benefit there is that Node obviously has all the CommonJS modules and other things available, and has quite a large mindshare in the JavaScript community. > 3) What is the current state and the plan/roadmap to provide binding > documentation of GNOME libraries? There is a bit of discussion on node-gir side of things about how the GIR APIs should be provided to JavaScript. Some things to consider: * camelCase or underscores? * Continuation-Passing Style or Call-Return? https://github.com/creationix/node-gir/issues/7 It might be good to have some common ground between the different JS implementations on these. > Eduardo /Henri PS. If you want to show it as a curiosity, here is a simple GTK example with CoffeeScript: http://friendpaste.com/4Xs9DD9BFQIY45cZRzygrB -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Jabber: henri.berg...@gmail.com Microblogs: @bergie _______________________________________________ javascript-list mailing list javascript-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/javascript-list
