Re: JavaScript engines

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> 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.

Not quite the same as Spidermonkey implements the 1.7 spec, and new
features are being used in gnome-shell already (1.7 introduced "let");
there are also some differences specific to gjs/seed, to import
modules for example.

IIRC those were the main differences I encountered when I "ported"
some gjs examples to seed, but it was just when seed got introduced,
things may well be different now.

Nevertheless it is still very early to pick a winner, and we agree on
that, both gjs and seed should still mature before a decision is made,
and Johan Dahlin made a good list of evaluation points.


Cheers,
        Frederic