GNOME's JavaScript Component Will Be Seeing More Improvements For 3.26

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME's JavaScript Component Will Be Seeing More Improvements For 3.26

GJS -- the GNOME JavaScript system that allows for GObject introspection and other capabilities via JavaScript on the desktop -- is planning for further improvements with GNOME 3.26...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GJS-Plans-For-GNOME-3.26

[tildearrow]

Possible typo, since I can't find this word in the blog post:

One of their last ES6 features to support is nodules.

Good night.

[Michael]

Possible typo, since I can't find this word in the blog post:



Good night.

Yep, thanks, should be modules.

[uid313]

This is great. ES6 classes is great, because now GJS uses their own weird class construct.

But there are not much documentation for writing gnome-shell extensions and often it ends up locking up / freezing gnome-shell, and there is really no good way to debug your extension. You can use Looking Glass, by Alt+F2 and type "lg" but it doesn't really provide any useful help.

[notanoob]

Out of curiosity, what is this javascript interpreter actually used for on the desktop?

[Vistaus]

This is great. ES6 classes is great, because now GJS uses their own weird class construct.

But there are not much documentation for writing gnome-shell extensions and often it ends up locking up / freezing gnome-shell, and there is really no good way to debug your extension. You can use Looking Glass, by Alt+F2 and type "lg" but it doesn't really provide any useful help.

I'm not a dev, but I seem to remember that in either 3.22 or 3.24 the GNOME devs added some construction in the code that would prevent locking up / freezing GNOME Shell. Correct me if my memory doesn't serve me right.

[Krejzi]

Out of curiosity, what is this javascript interpreter actually used for on the desktop?

Some GNOME Apps are written in (G)JS, and they use gjs interpreter to launch.

[q2dg]

If GJS was Node.js + GObject what a wonderful world would be!

[polarathene]

support for Primises async operations

I think you meant Promises

[polarathene]

If GJS was Node.js + GObject what a wonderful world would be!

If popularity is good, perhaps they'll be a babel transformation. I think there is one for KDE/Qt with qmlify, something like that. Converts the node js system calls into ones that qml would use from memory while you write your JS in ES6+ and it's transpiled to what QML supports, ES5 I think?