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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by pcwalton on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:53PM (#14159659)
> I've seen people seriously claim that every browser should use WebKit and all the other rendering engines should be thrown out, and that this would be "for the good of the web". What?!

This has been a meme for years now. I remember John Resig suggesting this in 2013—ironically, right before the Blink fork that ended mainline WebKit dominance.

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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by dherman on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:33PM (#14161133)
Wasn't it Joe Hewitt?
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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by pcwalton on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:49PM (#14161594)
I'm thinking of http://ejohn.org/blog/webkit-is-the-jquery-of-browser-engine...
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