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I was hoping in the article there would be a larger rebuttal to or at least reflection on the Blink/V8 monoculture the web is reducing to. I wasn't entirely su
by WorldMaker 3y ago
I was hoping in the article there would be a larger rebuttal to or at least reflection on the Blink/V8 monoculture the web is reducing to.
I wasn't entirely surprised given this was from the substack of The Browser Company who are just yet another company taking Blink/V8 and rearranging the deck chairs of the browser's, er, chrome (intentionally little 'c', pun intended). But I still would have liked to see some reflection on that, at least.
There's definitely a perspective that browsers can seem like mature tech if there's no clear innovation at the lowest parts of the stack, but that could just be "blinders" because there is no competition to force the innovation. A monoculture doesn't seem great for telling us if the ecosystem is healthy and mature or if it is just locked into a single team's perspective that is perhaps unchallenged.