[Sugar-devel] python hulahop article

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:55, Lucian Branescu<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've even heard that the mozilla folks want to deprecate XPCOM, in
> favour of more JavaScript usage in Firefox et all.

My understanding is that they will reduce usage of XPCOM features in
internal code (not exposed through API).

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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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