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[-] Aradia@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

No one here said GNOME desktop is mostly JS.

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

You're right, they said the desktop shell, which is still incorrect, but I guess a little less incorrect. My bad.

[-] Aradia@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Well, I started this thread saying it runs on JavaScript, and I mean that they need JS for most of the interactions with the desktop, like gesture or mouse events. 😞 Even if most of the code is C, we all know we need to write much many lines of code of C to do the same with JS, so most of the logics on GNOME is computed by JS. We need some rust here. 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀

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