<< July 16, 2008 >>
gtk 3: a case for gom!

one of the original goals in starting the gom project was to be able to write gtk apps without succumbing to the inherent problems of using gtk's apis. with gom, you already only interact with objects using their properties, and instead of silly, implementation-specific api calls you get to comfortably surround yourself with the beautiful w3c dom standards you already know and love from the web.

and if those aren't enough layers of abstraction from X or Quartz, you can always throw your favorite javascript library on top of it.

all this, and you don't need to deal with building on different platforms and distributions!

at least that's the idea.

last night i finally checked in those changes i mentioned. i then went late into the night trying to track down numerous refcounting and garbage collection. getting close.