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    Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 1 Jan 2019
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    What if we thought of browser engines less as monolithic entities and more as distros of the various libraries that comprise the Web platform?

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      2. Scott Michaud‏ @scottmichaud 1 Jan 2019
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        It would be kind-of cool to piecewise assemble a browser from a set of libraries that fit a standard. Would require a major restructure in the browser business model, though. They want to market a single consumer product.

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      3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 1 Jan 2019
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        It’s kind of already happening. Gecko already has a lot of Chromium and WebKit components.

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      2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 2 Jan 2019
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        Wasn't that the point of servo?

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      3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 2 Jan 2019
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        Sort of, in that modularity is a goal of Servo. But I’m thinking more radically here. What if the Web APIs were managed like packages in a Linux distro, with runtimes like Electron just a certain configuration of those packages?

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      2. Ingvar Stepanyan‏ @RReverser 2 Jan 2019
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        Not sure if you've seen NetSurf and it's certainly not one of the mainstream advanced engines, but I loved how they did just that, building each part as a separate reusable library. https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ 

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      3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 2 Jan 2019
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        Yeah, unfortunately the way it’s done in that engine pretty much precludes getting good perf. But I like the idea.

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      2. rektide de la fay‏ @rektide 1 Jan 2019
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        More & more of the platform would be borrowed to grow many non-web things. Exciting. And also a little scary.

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      3. Anthony Ramine‏ @nokusu 2 Jan 2019
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        How is it scary?

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      1. Christian S.‏ @squiddle 2 Jan 2019
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        this is one of the major complaints from Alan Kay on the web. If browsers would be designed as a bundle of capabilities (render device, pointer device) and a secure execution kernel we could see much more innovation in devices and apps. Instead we have a living standard and JS.

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      2. sp@m‏ @misterohno 1 Jan 2019
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        This reminds me of that GNU/Stallman linux copy. We'd all be better off if we could extract value from the modularity of code, especially MIT license stuff. Maybe it's build systems/lack of docs that prevent us, but in the age of git, we should further treat code as a mozaic.

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      3. sp@m‏ @misterohno 1 Jan 2019
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        I'm a C programmer, where would I be if it I wasn't robbing *sql, redis, nginx, libuv, linux and other C programmers where I could?

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