So this is very early impressions and my view may well change over the coming months... But WebKit is way easier to find your way around than Gecko. Contrarily, it's much less well commented (at least the parts I've come across so far), perhaps because it doesn't need it as much?
@smfr mentioned @WebKit mentality in the past. "I feel that we almost have a 'privileged few' mentality in some code; if you can't figure it out by reading the code, then you shouldn't be messing with it." https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-January/015772.html …
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That's really interesting. The lack of comments is really noticeable to me, but then so is (so far) how clear the code is. It does feel sometimes like Gecko only needs that kind of commenting due to how much indirection there is in anything beyond the most trivial thing...
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That said, I've spent far too much time in the past trying to decipher my own old code to be confident enough to say it explains itself, so I'd much rather have more comments than fewer :)
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