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Ask HN: What Is Chrome Written In?
Did Google use their toolkit or was another development platform employed?
- yan 18y agoChrome uses WebKit as their engine, which is written in C++. In terms of UI and the remainder of their internals, I believe it is custom-done, also in C++. I haven't looked too in-depth into their code, but you can get a lot more information about the source tree here: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-the-chrome-source-code http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-th...
- lacker 18y agoThe Google Web Toolkit doesn't really make sense for a browser, it's designed to make websites. Chrome is written in C++. Since it's open source you can even check out the code: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/ http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/