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This mindset is why we now have countless new browsers that all run on Chromium. What's the motivation for those? Also calling the project a "waste of effort"

This mindset is why we now have countless new browsers that all run on Chromium. What's the motivation for those? Also calling the project a "waste of effort" seems a bit out of touch. Effort doesn't have to pay off in any way to be worthwhile. If the act of building is part of the motivation then taking shortcuts at building it defeats the purpose.

charcircuit 3y ago
>What's the motivation for those? To compete on the actual end user experience. Most users do not care at all about the code of the project. They don't care if your layout engine code is completely unique, they care that it does layout for the sites they use correctly. Having a good browser engine to work off of lets people start delivering value to users immediately instead of having to spend a ton of time recreating the parts of a browser that users do not care about.