u/Sirko0208

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Loonixtards love JavaScript!

How many times have you heard "native" software fanatics ranting about bloated Electron apps, how much it annoys them, and so on? Yet it’s precisely thanks to this that they’ve gotten a mountain of useful software like Discord in the first place. No one would have bothered to make a native version for their Linux.

But despite all this, they don’t notice that their beloved Valve (what’s with the hatred of corporations, by the way?) and the Steam client are written using web technologies. Their GNOME Shell is practically a browser that renders windows. The entire interface is written in JavaScript, and on top of that, using the less-than-ideal SpiderMonkey engine. Meanwhile, KDE and QT advocates fail to notice the elephant in the room: QML-JavaScript (V4). (Funny enough, monkey-patching GNOME extensions is often more reliable than crashing, buggy plasmoids, etc.)

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