• ara
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      Gnome is coded with JavaScript (lmao 🤣) so yeah, I Think you are right.

      EDIT: Actually, even if JavaScript and other languages have this issue, the value 1.7518248558044434 has not this issue. There is another reply that explains it and makes totally sense. But still pretty lame to know the desktop runs with JavaScript. (Yeah, I hate Gnome)

      • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s not a “language” issue it’s a “computer” issue. This math is being done on the CPU.

        IEEE 754

        Some languages do provide for “arbitrary precision math” (Java’s BigDecimal for example) but it’s slower to do that. Not what you want if you’re multiplying a 4k matrix every millisecond.

        • ara
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          03 months ago

          I see, thanks for the explanation.

          • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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            03 months ago

            Closer to 50/50, and other parts of the GNOME desktop like mutter, are largely C. Saying the entire GNOME desktop is mostly JS is silly.

            • ara
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              03 months ago

              No one here said GNOME desktop is mostly JS.

            • kbal
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              On the other hand, saying that there’s way too much javascript in it is objectively factual.

              • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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                03 months ago

                You don’t get to decide what too much JS in the project is unless you actually work on and have in depth knowledge of the project. I dont like JS, but it has its uses.

                Many people are conflating modern electron bloatware with ‘JS bad’, but things are not that simple.

            • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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              03 months ago

              That page also shows that there is more C. That page is also specifically the shell, not all of the desktop.

              • ara
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                03 months ago

                There is less than 4% more code in C than JavaScript. That’s pretty much, many features on the gnome-desktop is using JavaScript too, like gestures and mouse events.

        • ara
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          Okay, but still needs JavaScript, they are slowly trying to remove or improve it. But it is a fact that it also runs on JavaScript. 🤣

          • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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            03 months ago

            Using JavaScript isn’t inherently a bad thing. JavaScript can be very useful when used for scripting. Obviously anything with a new for performance will be done in C.

            • ara
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              JavaScript isn’t the best language to make a desktop interface in my opinion, it can be very efficient, but you can see in bugs (at least in the past) how bad performance it had, and they needed to re-factor it to replace to C or improve the JavaScript. I’m just laughing and making fun of it using JavaScript, not saying it is slow, Gnome is pretty fast nowadays.

            • TimeSquirrel
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              Javascript was a toy created in the mid 90s to make dumb interactive animations and have some sort of dynamic aspect to a web page. The world starting to code entire desktop programs and servers in it was a giant, horrific, societal mistake.