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Firefox is a native app that is ported between OSes. It doesn't run on a VM.
by lonelappde 7y ago
Firefox is a native app that is ported between OSes. It doesn't run on a VM.
- hinkley 7y agoI don’t want to go all “you darn kids” so I won’t. But the pervasiveness of web technology I think has made the majority of us forget why it’s pervasive. Cross platform can be really fucking hard, especially if you don’t respect the challenges and end up down a blind alley. One of my favorite books starting out was the Stevens book about Unix. It only covers the differences in system call availability and behavior across Unix OSes. It doesn’t even touch graphics. It’s a big fat book just covering file, network, processes, and memory operations. No Mac, no Microsoft, just Unix. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_Unix_Environment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_...