Comment by amazari
4 hours ago
You know that all the Wayland primitives, event handling and drawing in gnome-shell are handled in C/native code through Mutter, right ? The JavaScript in gnome-shell is the cherry on top for scripting, similar to C#/Lua (or any GCed language) in game engines, elisp in Emacs, event JS in QtQuick/QML.
It is not the performance bottleneck people seem to believe.
I can dig out the old GNOME tickets and related blog posts...
Implementation matters, including proper use of JIT/AOT toolchains.
>I can dig out the old GNOME tickets and related blog posts...
That's the easiest way you can win any argument on gnome. You're going straight for the nuclear option.