Drew DeVault:
“The total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of
writing. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and
POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything
on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C
specifications.
I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is
obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo
program or the Manhattan project.
It is impossible to:
•Implement the web correctly
•Implement the web securely
•Implement the web at all”