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The classic problem of being first to market in software, is that your competition can learn from your design and move forward with a fresh code. Firefox is st
by wvenable 8y ago
The classic problem of being first to market in software, is that your competition can learn from your design and move forward with a fresh code. Firefox is still trying to shed off code from a decade ago.
The history of browsers is littered with legacy code being defeated by new code.
- baroffoos 8y agoThe rust rewrites are ripping out loads of old code.
- dralley 8y ago"Loads" is relative. There's still 20x more C++ in Firefox than Rust.
- zanny 8y agoExcept Chrome wasn't some brand new project. It was Webkit which was KHTML and dated back to the mid 90s. They just wrote their, uh, chrome layer and js engine a half decade later which were, and still are, reaping tangible benefits.