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This is a good move. Without having endless resources keeping the codebase small and focused just makes sense.

I know it's going to be painful for non-Linux users but volunteer devs can't be expected to cover all bases.

They do have endless resources. They are an IBM company. If people choose to work for IBM without getting payed, that's kind of their problem.

gnome is an IBM company?

Someone should tell them.

IBM bought Redhat, Redhat hires the devs for GNOME and hosts its infrastructure. IBM and Redhat where also the main founders of GNOME. They don't need to legally own GNOME. When most of the people working on systemD and GNOME are IBM employees, IBM makes the decisions. And GNOME is an IBM company.

https://wiki.gnome.org/RedHat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation

>Keeping the codebase small and focused makes sense

LMFAO. You have not even glanced at insane dumpster fire that is the gnome codebase.

Regardless of what it's currently like, supporting fewer things is going to make it easier to maintain.

If Gnome cared about an easy to maintain codebase it would be radically different. Gnome's complexity is comparable to a large web browser (which is kind of insane considering how little it really does.)

To be completely fair to Gnome, they're doing some stuff that nobody else is doing. The idea of building an entire desktop off the backs of C and the gobject system is very novel and gives Gnome a lot of advantages. For example, it had binding for just about every language under the sun. Compare that to KDE and Qt, which is C++ or bust.

Obviously it's a bit hacky and kind of a mess, but it is technically interesting.

I don't know how things are done in the GTK-land, but Qt definitely has bindings for Python, Go, and others. Maybe GObject has some other advantages, but I don't know.

Kind of, but those binding are incomplete and not all modules are supported.

When I say GTK has bindings for every language, I do literally mean every language. It's the nice thing about choosing C as the language to make your entire API in.

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