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Why the quotation marks? If I recall correctly, Vala compiles (by way of C) into native code.

• iso8859-1 2y ago
  GNOME uses a lot of JavaScript nowadays, so large parts of an application can be interpreted. Here are the GJS docs, it gives you an idea of how much JavaScript there is: https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/ https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/
  • treyd 2y ago
    Haven't they gradually been moving away from gjs though?
  • nozzlegear 2y ago
    Does Elementary use Gnome? I thought it was something else. It's been years since I've been on Elementary, but it didn't feel like it was just a Gnome skin iirc.
    • pacifika 2y ago
      it uses pantheon
    • tcmart14 2y ago
      To my understanding, Pantheon is built from scratch, but it is still GTK. So it has a lot of similar fundamentals as GNOME.
• amaccuish 2y ago
  Sorry, meant native as in made by the elementaryOS team (it's an Ubuntu-based distro).