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Chrome pushes hundreds of new APIs every year [1]. On top of that modern browsers are huge unmaintainable beasts. Chrome is upwards of 25 million lines of code
by dmitriid 4y ago
Chrome pushes hundreds of new APIs every year [1]. On top of that modern browsers are huge unmaintainable beasts. Chrome is upwards of 25 million lines of code [2]
All of this compounds together: new features introduce new bugs, new features and maintenance expose old bugs, all of those changes suddenly make new bugs appear because no one know all the intricacies of this code etc.
[1] https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
[2] https://www.openhub.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest/languages_summary https://www.openhub.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest/languages_s...