nebulaone@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWhy is it so expensive to develop a web browser?message-squaremessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down13
arrow-up173arrow-down1message-squareWhy is it so expensive to develop a web browser?nebulaone@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·3 months agoThey’re basically as complex as operating systems these days. You need to implement several huge standards in order to get relatively simple modern sites to load
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-23 months agoFun fact: chromium has about 1.5 million more lines of code than the Linux kernel (about 32mil vs about 30.5mil), not including whitespace/docs/etc.
They’re basically as complex as operating systems these days.
You need to implement several huge standards in order to get relatively simple modern sites to load
Fun fact: chromium has about 1.5 million more lines of code than the Linux kernel (about 32mil vs about 30.5mil), not including whitespace/docs/etc.