[Sugar-devel] python hulahop article

[Lucian Branescu]

I've even heard that the mozilla folks want to deprecate XPCOM, in
favour of more JavaScript usage in Firefox et all.

2009/7/26 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
> what would be _especially_ good would be for xpcom to be "broken out
> of" xulrunner both in peoples' minds and also in actual real code.
> xpcom is a dumbed-down version of DCOM (i.e. with the D removed and
> many other features) and so i _know_ just how powerful it really is,
> but very few other people - outside of the mozilla community - are.
> which is a real surprise.
>
> you can register services as objects, and have them seamlessly
> communicate across programming language barriers... that kind of
> technology is just... gold dust!  the mozilla community should be
> raving their tits off about that!  and it's just weird that they're
> not doing that, whilst gobject is struggling to make ends meet.
>
> l.
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