The developers of the Gnome desktop environment that applications preferably in JavaScript are written. The Gnome Project promises developers that it will support in the writing of Gnome apps in the scripting language.
According to developer Travis Reitter, there arose at a recent meeting of Gnome developers, discussion about the ‘best’ programming language to build applications within the Gnome desktop environment. After the necessary preferences were discussed, the choice fell on the Gnome Project on JavaScript, a scripting language that is already widely used for building web applications.
The Gnome Project states that in the preparation of documentation for developers will give preference to JavaScript. In addition, developers will be encouraged to use apps in JavaScript to write and the Gnome Project promises developers the workflow for the build of Gnome-applications in this scripting language to optimize.
The choice would be JavaScript are cases under other because the performance of modern JavaScript engines in the past few years manufacturers have been improved. In addition, JavaScript is widely used in the construction of web applications, and also, for example, Windows 8 will be a lot of apps built using the scripting language.