“Ars takes a close look at Seed, a new framework that allows software developers to build GTK+ applications with JavaScript. The popular web scripting language could soon become the dominant application extension language on the Linux desktop.”
“Ars takes a close look at Seed, a new framework that allows software developers to build GTK+ applications with JavaScript. The popular web scripting language could soon become the dominant application extension language on the Linux desktop.”
it could change the way that GNOME programmers approach application development. JavaScript could be used as high-level glue for user interface manipulation and rapid prototyping while Vala or C are used for performance-sensitive tasks.
so.. nothing python or such couldn’t do?
I personally find javascript hard and messy inc omparison
I agree with you. I believe they are targeting the large base of web and widget/gadget developers who already know JavaScript and just want to write small apps.
Yeah, I think so too. If I could learn one language and use it to build (small) desktop applications as well as web applications, even I would be interested in that. Of course, there’s Java, but that’s more of a full-blown programming language, whereas I’m thinking more along the lines of a dynamic scripting language. If you could program client-side web stuff with python, that would be the camel’s nuts
Edited 2009-01-19 23:27 UTC
In its current form, and given the way it’s used (clumsily), the tasks it’s being used for (mainly manipulating DOM trees) and the platform it’s used on (browsers), sure, it’s generally a mess.
However, work on the next version of javascript is ongoing, and promises some *very* compelling features (see for example http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2504 : highlights for me are optional typing, and support for both nominal and structural types).
Plasma
🙂