Interestingly, I didn't say it made fast computers slow, I said it made fast computers <i>seem</i> slow, which is quite a different statement. I also didn't say that javascript was to blame, more likely it was javascript developers who were to blame. But the correlation is not encouraging.
Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"
Posted Feb 11, 2013 15:42 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950)
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Not sure how you see the correlation. Why pick javascript and not the compositing? Or maybe gtk+3.x, dconf, etc?
In practice the slowness is often combination of compositing and drivers btw (aside from just outright gnome-shell bugs :P). Use gnome-shell on another system or with another driver and you'll see a huge difference.