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Ask HN: How many "layers" do we go though using a browser?

2 points by babyboy808 17y ago

Was just randomly thinking earlier about how computers are basically built up though layers until it hits machine code. So here's one for you... How many "layers" (don't know how else to describe it) does the computer go through to hit binary? Browser < ... < ... binary ?

russell 17y ago
From one point of view it's all binary, but here are the layers of one project that I worked on (and this is the simplified version): Browser > javascript > client library > jQuery > apache > Jboss > Spring > Tomcat> controller logic > business logic > Hibernate > cache> database > jsp > libraries
- yjgfnfgmh 17y ago
  You're doing it wrong.
gaius 17y ago
Ermm, 1. Your browser is almost certainly compiled C/C++/ObjC.