You ask: "How can it make sense in a sane world for a web browser to take up more space than entire operating systems?" The last 30 years of the web has slowly

You ask: "How can it make sense in a sane world for a web browser to take up more space than entire operating systems?" The last 30 years of the web has slowly evolved the web browser into its own operating system. Google Chrome is now a pretty hefty code base that depends on distributed builds [1] for compilation to complete in a timely manner. The fact that Microsoft threw in the towel [2] and decided to build on top of Chrome is testament to the enormous man-years that has been put into Chrome. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14734171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14734171 2: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...