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Original cross-platform Netscape was iirc. Quality died when they went to c++? Probably less influential on their fate than Microsoft.

• jcelerier 6y ago
  > Quality died when they went to c++? when they went to c++ it became Firefox. do you think we'd have a better firefox today had it stayed in C ?
  • harry8 6y ago
    /When/ they went, which, iirc was Netscape 4 (?). It was horrendous, crashing, slow buggy, awfulness, which the previous version really wasn't. This was when it was all closed and proprietary. Firefox came a long time later. Well after Mozilla opened. No idea if Firefox would be better if they'd stayed in c. What i do know is that c++ is a vastly, vastly better language now through no fault of the standards committee. G++ got good. Then came clang++, valgrind was an amazing leap forward too. Before all that there really was no such thing as cross platform c++.