Christopher Smith wrote:
why isn't the web littered with
Python/Haskell/Java/whatever web browsers that are far more feature rich
and performant, not to mention more secure and bug free?
Because you not only have to be performant and feature-rich, you also
have to be bug-compatible. It also helps to be distributed with an OS.
Note that people write tons and tons of web browsers. Every language
that lets you fetch a web page, do SOAP or cURL, is basically a browser.
It just lacks the GUI. Special-purpose stuff may very well overwhelm
general-purpose stuff in quantity of bytes transferred.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Remember the good old days, when we
used to complain about cryptography
being export-restricted?
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