not entirely true. Gnome has a first class language - Vala [1] - that is for writing performant system level applications. And the community is quite active as well - https://github.com/trending?l=vala
If you think of automation, there have been attempts at bringing flow based programming to the Gnome-JS engine (think of it as Quartz Composer integrated into the desktop) [3] - plus the fact that http://extensions.gnome.org is about as automatic as you can get to customize the desktop.
Is it a difference in positioning ? Because honestly I'm a little befuddled on why all the developers on HN get supremely excited about JS on OSX... and not something like NoFlo.js integrated into Gnome.
If you think of automation, there have been attempts at bringing flow based programming to the Gnome-JS engine (think of it as Quartz Composer integrated into the desktop) [3] - plus the fact that http://extensions.gnome.org is about as automatic as you can get to customize the desktop.
Is it a difference in positioning ? Because honestly I'm a little befuddled on why all the developers on HN get supremely excited about JS on OSX... and not something like NoFlo.js integrated into Gnome.
[1] https://github.com/GNOME/vala [2] http://lethalman.hostei.com/maja/index.html [3] http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-and-gnome/