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GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements - 9to5Linux

GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements - 9to5Linux

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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.
- Is that bad?
  
  It's fun
- Oh that's why cinnamon (fork of Gnome 3) uses a ton of JavaScript.
Great for my 128Gb RAM laptop
Is it up to the level of quality and features of KDE yet?
- I consider KDE to be the lower quality option so that's subjective.
  
  Why is that? (genuine question, thanks!)
- People like you confuse me. Do you want gnome to be the same as KDE? If so why? KDE already exists. Whats the point of having multiple DEs if they arent different?
  
  I don't actually care about gnome, so much as about gnome being the default for most distros when kde is just better at everything a de and a unix-like system should do. Gnome is just... restrictive. Do it their way or you can;t do much of anything. And most annoyingly, the file dialogues are shite!
- Roughly the quality of KDE 4.1
- You can probably compare Gnome with Pantheon DE.
  
  Not sure what Pantheon DE is. Does Temple OS use it?

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