[carussell]

Specifically? I don't think there were specifics. Just the familiar general anti-JS sentiment.

I spent a few seconds looking through my feed of past Planet Gnome posts. It looks like the first announcement was here in 2013:

http://treitter.livejournal.com/14871.html

You can get a taste from the comments there. Here's some meta-commentary:

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/17w0z5/javascri...

IIRC, it didn't really let up. I don't have a reference, but I vaguely recall something that, if not an official recantation, was akin to the general sentiment of backpeddling from the original stance, although I may be misremembering. In any case, the forthcoming concerted effort to go all-in on JS-for-Gnome didn't really happen as that post suggests it would.

A couple months after the fomentatious announcement linked above, GitHub quietly started work on Atom Shell and then a year later released Atom and Electron under MIT. What a massive lost opportunity for the Gnome folks to take advantage of the lead they'd set up for themselves instead of bowing to the vocal pressure! Had that not been the case, GTK+JS might've been the go-to framework for rapid cross-platform desktop app development in the instances where people are reaching for Electron today. (And that recurring plea for more "native" UIs would never be heard—or at the very least there'd be a straightforward path to migrate codebases to native in a piecemeal fashion if there was any motivation to do so.)