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Compared to DBs browser code bases are lax and buggy beyond belief. Want to take a second and a gig of RAM opening a page? Go right ahead. Browser crashes? We'r
by melted 11y ago
Compared to DBs browser code bases are lax and buggy beyond belief. Want to take a second and a gig of RAM opening a page? Go right ahead. Browser crashes? We're "sorry", wait for next release 2 weeks from now. No multitenancy. No having to deal with data of arbitrary size. No transactions. No writing anything complicated to disk. Etc, etc. You're comparing things that really require completely different levels of rigor, sophistication and engineering skill. Last I checked, BTW, all currently shipping browsers are written in C++.
- pcwalton 11y agoBrowsers certainly do have to deal with multitenancy (although we don't call it by that name), data of arbitrary size, transactions, and complicated on-disk data structures. In any case, you now seem to be primarily interested in arguing that database programmers are smarter than all other programmers, which, needless to say, is about the most uninteresting conversation we could possibly be having.