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There are some benefits using a compiled, optimized and modern statically typed language for desktop software that runs on the user's machine -- it's less work
by dons 14y ago
There are some benefits using a compiled, optimized and modern statically typed language for desktop software that runs on the user's machine -- it's less work to get a smaller memory footprint, reduced liklihood of runtime errors, faster start times.
- _delirium 14y agoFor "big" software I agree in principle, but for both of these browsers, the vast majority of computation happens in the embedded WebKit rendering engine, which is written in C++. The browser built around it is more UI bindings and an API to interact with other Unix software, and for that, afaict, Python isn't really slowing uzbl down.