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How is solving merge conflicts harder than developing an entire browser engine? Plus Igalia, MS, Mozilla, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi etc could maintain a shared fork
by _bent 2y ago
How is solving merge conflicts harder than developing an entire browser engine?
Plus Igalia, MS, Mozilla, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi etc could maintain a shared fork that kept stuff like Manifestv2 if they wanted.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoThe problem is that the difficult not only increases with time unbounded, but is on a steep curve. Eventually the manpower and resource required to keep up with upstream will eventually match and outstrip that required to develop and maintain a new engine.
- mistercheph 2y agoHave you ever met a team that maintained a fork of a legacy codebase with more than 6 figures of code?