Re: 3.2: gjs/seed

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
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> I think the "we define the platform" argument is really weak. Our whole
> platform is written in C and we definitly don't define that platform.
> You can include a lot of really old Unix API in C and nobody can prevent
> you doing it.

Yes, but GLib is very prominent in the world for code written in
C...third party libraries are quite likely to already depend on it.

Also, it's not just the API exposed, but the fact that we have control
over the implementation if we need it.  For a different example, if we
wanted to go to town on memory usage optimizations and have a
pre-forking zygote process for gtk3+js apps, we could do that.  But it
would be impossible with Python (at least, not without effectively
rewriting it, which would preclude access to all the libraries written
in C).