libnih should be the stable app developer API/toolkit Re: Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

[Evan Dandrea]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
<dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 4 March 2013 15:34, Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> Evan Dandrea [2013-03-04 11:24 +0000]:
>> Developers of all stripes have written over 700,000 applications for iOS in
>> Objective-C. What's so bad about telling people that they should write C++ with
>> UI in Javascript?
>>
>
> Or C with libnih support =))))
>
> Regards,
>
> Dmitrijs.
>
> ps. just kidding =)

:)

I think that instead of saying "lower level languages are hard!" and
then doing a lot of work to layer higher-level languages on them, we
should invest that effort in providing comprehensive documentation and
tooling to make the development experience wonderful in that one core
language.

Like I said, Apple disproved the notion that the secret to lots of
high quality client-side applications is a language that is
comparatively easy (at the expense of being slow and bloated in
*practice* [1]).

1: https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-are-slow