Re: JavaScript engines

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 10:59 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org> wrote:
> > We need to have this discussion sooner or later, seems like sooner
> > is now required as Robert proposed to have Seed included in Gnome.
> >
> > First of all, I think most of us agrees that it would be a mistake to depend
> > on two different JavaScript bindings in GNOME, we need to chose one and
> > stick to that one.
> 
> Actually, I do disagree. The JavaScript interpreter/JIT wars are just
> now heating up and its still way to early to call a winner. 2-3 years
> from now, there could be a distinct winner in the JS VM battle and it
> would be unfortunate if we picked the wrong horse, so to speak. I
> think we need to support bindings for both front-runners. After all,
> both implementations run the same language with the same syntax and
> they are *both* using the same underlying GObject bindings so the
> API's will be the same.

The APIs will certainly not automatically be the same. There are lots
and lots of little decisions you have to make when you bind gtk. If just
one of these differ then they won't be compatible.