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Webkit is the primary and integral part of Chrome, isn't it? At least being Webkit-based is one of its defining features. Likened to video games, it is sorta w
by kazuya 16y ago
Webkit is the primary and integral part of Chrome, isn't it?
At least being Webkit-based is one of its defining features.
Likened to video games, it is sorta well done MOD based on a great game. I don't call it "from scratch".
- fleitz 16y agoAn OS is an integral part of pretty much any software and yet many people claim to have written their software from scratch which relies on the OS for major parts of it's functionality. Is twitter not written from scratch because it uses MySQL and Rails? Is apache not written from scratch because it relies on glibc?
- InclinedPlane 16y agoRDBMS functionality is a primary and integral part of almost all web applications, could any web app that uses a database back-end be said to be "written from scratch" then? Was Facebook written from scratch? The amount of work that went into creating Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Memcache, the x86-64 instruction set, etc. is almost certainly vastly greater than the work that has gone into creating Facebook. When I tell somebody I made bread "from scratch" I don't mean that I coded the DNA sequences for wheat in my spare time and then planted, grew, and harvested the wheat myself, nor that I ground the wheat into flour. Nor that I grew, harvested, and processed sugar cane myself. Etc. You have to draw the line somewhere.