On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:24:05 -0500 doctormo@...155... wrote:
On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 18:55 -0600, Ole Ersoy wrote:
This is my wish:
https://medium.com/@ole.ersoy/rewriting-inkscape-in-javascript-7e351738c37c
I completely understand the sentiment. And it's something that's been tried (although bits and pieces, for different reasons). Though never elektron.
Note that it is spelled https://electronjs.org/ . No k.
I'm personally not moved. As a python and C++ developer I find javascript to be the most clunky language with popularity. It's worse than C++11 on the fundamentals (inkscape's current language). The momentum behind Inkscape's codebase would mean a js version would always be a ground up recreation anyway.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
Also see https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emscripten&atb=v141-3b_&ia=software as well as https://github.com/QQuick/Transcrypt and http://pyjs.org/ and we can also embed a js runtime engine in C++ code. Note that vs code which is electron based is unusable over remote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System over my home wifi connection while the gtk-based gvim (see https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22gvim%22&atb=v141-3b_&ia=web ) is perfectly usable and Qt-based apps are decent.
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