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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by BobbyTables2 on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:16PM (#46508667)
Static linking is still better than shipping a whole container for one app. (Which we also seem to do a lot these days!)

It still boggles my mind that Adobe Acrobat Reader is now larger than Encarta 95… Hell, it’s probably bigger than all of Windows 95!

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by tcfhgj on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:56AM (#46510879)
Whole container or even chromium in electron
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