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Chromium came from WebKit, which came from KHTML, which dates back to 1998.
by ac29 6y ago
Chromium came from WebKit, which came from KHTML, which dates back to 1998.
- lmm 6y agoChromium took parts from WebKit, but e.g. the whole JavaScript engine was completely new. Even if they needed to depend on some libraries written in C++, that doesn't justify writing the whole application in that language. And once they forked WebCore as Blink they could have gradually pushed the borderline down.
- throwaway17_17 6y agoI wish I had read this comment before I replied to your parent, if I had thought about a primary Haskell or OCaml implementation with FFI and then gradually shifting I might have just kept my mouth/keyboard shut.
- josefx 6y ago> but e.g. the whole JavaScript engine was completely new. A quick check of Wikipedia shows that they derived it from an existing small talk implementation.
- lmm 6y agoJava is closer to SmallTalk than C++ is.
- josefx 6y agoSorry if I was unclear. The original engine was for Small Talk, not written in Small Talk. V8 adapted that for use with JavaScript.
- magicalist 6y ago> The original engine was for Small Talk Just the assembler files, for what it's worth: https://web.archive.org/web/20100722105022/http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/trunk/LICENSE https://web.archive.org/web/20100722105022/http://code.googl...