GNOME, the free desktop environment, has embraced Javascript. Starting from version 3.0, Javascript is at the core of the user experience delivered to tens of thousands of GNOME users out there. We call it the gnome-shell, but the real beauty lies within. This presentation will give you a brief tour around the great technology behind the shell, a technology that GNOME hackers use to have automatic reflection of their core libraries into Javascript. Yes, you read well, automatic! It is called gobject-introspection and gives you the super-powers of Javascript-ing most of the hardcore C libraries that powers GNOME, from multimedia, web browsing, accelerated 2D and 3D graphics, communications, UX, hardware interaction, and many more. During the talk, a couple of examples will be discussed, some demos dropped, and we might hack the shell on-the-fly as well! Less