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One counterexample that comes to mind is CUPS (the printing system). LLVM and WebKit are also extremely non-trivial open source (and cross platform) contributio
by 1propionyl 6y ago
One counterexample that comes to mind is CUPS (the printing system). LLVM and WebKit are also extremely non-trivial open source (and cross platform) contributions.
Most Linux users here likely use one or two out of three of these on a weekly basis. Many likely use all three on a weekly basis. Some use all three daily.
- formerly_proven 6y agoApple has removed most stuff that's needed for non-mac platforms from CUPS over the years, which are maintained by the Linux community separately now. WebKit is probably pretty rare outside macos, most browsers will be built from Chromium/Blink instead. LLVM is developed by many companies these days, including Intel, Sony and Google.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoAt least one command line tool in my toolbox uses webkit. (wkhtmltopdf)
- floatboth 6y ago> Apple has removed most stuff that's needed for non-mac platforms from CUPS over the years Wrong. Upstream CUPS on Apple's github has support for everything, even systemd. > WebKit is probably pretty rare outside macos, most browsers will be built from Chromium/Blink GTK's WebView (and browsers like Epiphany aka GNOME Web) use WebKit, complete with Apple's web inspector / devtools.
- formerly_proven 6y agohttps://github.com/OpenPrinting https://github.com/OpenPrinting and cups-filters in particular. > GTK's WebView (and browsers like Epiphany aka GNOME Web) use WebKit, complete with Apple's web inspector / devtools. Good point, Qt's legacy HTML engine (Qt WebKit) is, well, WebKit, too. The newer Qt WebEngine uses Blink. I suspect this is a common pattern with components built on KHTML/WebKit before Chromium became Blink. In any case, Blink is clearly the fork that won.