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I have a hard time imagining a more accidentally complex piece of software than a web browser written in C++ and in Rust. All the chaos of the so-called web st

by blub 4y ago

I have a hard time imagining a more accidentally complex piece of software than a web browser written in C++ and in Rust. All the chaos of the so-called web standards, decades of accumulated C++ complexity and the eccentricity and burgeoning complexity of Rust on top. Getting assigned to such a project must be akin to punishment.

saagarjha 4y ago
In chaos some see order.
dblohm7 4y ago
Not really. That’s a typical workday for many Gecko developers. Some useful guidelines made it pretty straightforward: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation