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Re:Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust by masswerk on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:57PM (#24173159)
Talking oft the late 00s, it was actually about Webkit. Nowadays Chrome collects all the merits for the foundation it was once built on.
Re:Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust by jashmatthews on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:18PM (#24174682)
It's crazy how much dev mindshare Google captured with Chrome and V8 to the point where WebKit and JavaScriptCore are almost forgotten despite Safari making huge progress in JS performance before Chrome was even released.