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You're delusional if you think you can maintain a competitive browser runtime with 50 employees.
by fabrice_d 6y ago
You're delusional if you think you can maintain a competitive browser runtime with 50 employees.
- coldtea 6y agoI think you can maintain it with even less... KHTML was done by a tiny KDE team. After Apple adopted it, Webkit/Safari only had a small team of people working on it. A good team of 12-20 devs is better than some BS team of 250 with politics, communication overhead, lack of coherence etc that comes with scale...
- The_Colonel 6y ago> KHTML was done by a tiny KDE team. Yes, 20 years ago. Fortunately, web technology did not evolve and grow at all since so it should be doable now too, right?
- coldtea 6y ago> Yes, 20 years ago. So? 20 years ago Netscape still had a much larger team, Microsoft too, and Webkit with its small team still beat them in their own game. Small teams can build whole OSes, browsers, compilers, and whatever they put their mind too. Given good devs/experts, they can do so even better/faster than bigger teams. P.S. 1 Not that a 50-strong team is small. P.S. 2 Plus, way of missing the point. The team-of-50, 200K, 20 years = 200M was just an example. 200M is 1/3rd of what Mozilla made in a year for decades. And even those 200M would just be the raw money spent, not invested or anything. They could afford to support a 300-strong team of 20 years with 2 years of their revenue un-invested. And that's with a $200K/year salary, which doesn't have to be...