I think I learned more about windows and chrome (and internal google politiks) from this one blog post than really everything I've read over the past year.

Thanks! Followup post has a little bit more: https://textslashplain.com/2018/05/07/google-chrome-twoish-y...

Thanks! I found that too.

I wish it had more :)

Being on the outside of these giant companies I'm always interested in all the semi-invisible architecture that supports the development, stuff that needs to exist but you don't really think about it until you need to make it.

Anyway, I really appreciated your blog and will be adding it to my watchlist :)

(written in 2017, dev is now back at Microsoft working on Edge)

Take this with a gain of salt, I've heard that Microsoft is eyeing Edge for the chopping block, and they're prototyping yet-another-chromium-based-browser with a look and feel of Edge. It's obviously a massive development effort to build a browser and this would ease porting edge to different platforms. I assume a PM decided to stop reinventing the wheel and cut costs to get more visibility for promotion.

Good catch! Added above.

> typical Chrome build today still takes about 15 minutes

Is this a typical build experience for Google devs? Or is this more of a rebuild / core header changed ?

A full build of Chrome on local hardware takes a very long time, variable based on the number of CPU cores and their clock speed.

Much faster builds are achieved using Goma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16135596