GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements - 9to5Linux
GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements - 9to5Linux
9to5linux.com GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements - 9to5Linux
GNOME 47.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 "Denver" desktop environment series.
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Fun fact, roughly half of gnome-shell codebase is written in JavaScript.
I know that extensions are mostly written in js, but why codebase? Any legacy reason I wonder?
From what I can gather
- JS is system agnostic, doesn't require compilation or multiple dependency binaries, as opposed to say Python.
- JS is widely understood, could get more contributors.
- JS is a good enough scripting language made with UI stuff in mind.
I also see people lamenting that lua wasn't chosen, so there's that.
Oh that's why cinnamon (fork of Gnome 3) uses a ton of JavaScript.
Great for my 128Gb RAM laptop
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