Gregory's ServerOkay, why say "web browsers are hard to make, you need a huge budget to do so" instead of
Chrome wasn't built in a day
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 @faho gosh darn it
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28 Nov 2021 at 21:06 | Open on fedi.underscore.world
   @meena OOOhh I wasn't even thinking about compilation. I was thinking development!  @scanlime... do you believe the romans were the good guys? Because I'm not calling this a good thing. @faho i don't see how the joke works unless you want to conflate "chrome" with all "web browsers" @scanlime Chrome has had a fuckton of work poured into it, and competing with that requires a huge budget? That's why Chrome's hegemony is so hard to beat, which is why "everyone" but Mozilla has basically given up on making their own browser from scratch @scanlime I... I don't? I use it? It's just that Chrome has the overwhelming market share, so it is the thing to beat? Firefox is somewhere at *maybe* 10% (discounting mobile entirely because that's a broken ecosystem). @faho sounds like you're looking for a technical solution to a social problem then   Instead of "web browsers are the worst case of scope creep and hypertext documents were never meant to be Turing-complete"?  @didek @faho @humanetech The hardest part is to make a community-driven #javascript engine that for example can be dropped into webkit or at least into node or deno. I wonder if it is splittable into making/adopting a #wasm machine and making a js JIT compiler into wasm. There is also KJS but i wonder if it is actually usable now.  @faho And the way diversity in the browser market is waning, you could even say that All roads lead to Chrome.  |
