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Neat project, but the marketing's a little disingenuous. It's not "entirely written in Javascript", it's a Javascript layer on top of Chromium, an enormous code
by portmanteaufu 12y ago
Neat project, but the marketing's a little disingenuous. It's not "entirely written in Javascript", it's a Javascript layer on top of Chromium, an enormous codebase written in C++.
- spolu 12y agoEntirely right! :) It's pure Javascript on top of the ExoBrwoser which is a thin layer of C++ on top of NodeJS + Chromium Content Module.
- timdorr 12y agoIt should be "Show HN: Breach – A new browser UI written in JavaScript"
- cr3ative 12y agoThank you for distilling it. This makes a lot more sense.
- dang 12y agoWe changed it to that. Thanks for a perfect (because minimal and neutral) HN title edit.
- spolu 12y agoIn that case you may maybe add the modular adjective to better convey the fact that it can be used to build new UI easily: Breach - A new modular Browser UI written in JS ?
- spolu 12y agoI would also add that this means that Opera is a Browser UI :)
- spolu 12y agoThe post had a couple title edits which is fine but the last edit is really diminishing the impact of the whole project: "Show HN: Breach – A new browser UI written in JavaScript" I appreciate that Breach is not entirely written in JS, but it's as much a browser as Opera is and qualifying it of a "Browser UI" does not convey a realistic image of the project. Maybe we could edit the title again to something like: Show HN: Breach - A new modular Browser built on top of Chromium/NodeJS