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    Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton Jan 27
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    IMO, modularity should be a goal of every browser engine. You should be able to share code between browsers, and between browsers and other types of apps, without taking the entire engine as a monolith.

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      1. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton Jan 27
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        The trick, of course, is to do this without slowing down development. It's tough, but I think it's doable.

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      2. Bruce Mitchener‏ @ArmyOfBruce Jan 27
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        WebAssembly could allow us to ship our own layout engines and such with the “right” lower level APIs. So many things could have been WebAssembly modules / plugins.

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      3. Anthony Ramine‏ @nokusu Jan 27
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        The scare quotes are the most important part of that tweet.

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      1. Anthony Ramine‏ @nokusu Jan 27
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        chrome: jUSt FORk It dUDE

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      1. Slava Pestov‏ @slava_pestov Jan 27
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        OpenDoc!

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      1. Reilly Grant → @reillyeon@toot.cafe‏ @reillyeon Jan 27
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        This would be a lot easier in something other than C++ where basic design decisions don't infect your entire application.

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      1. Thaddee Tyl‏ @espadrine Jan 27
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        The LLVM of browser engines?

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      1. Moritz Mahringer‏ @mormahr Jan 27
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        Would be interesting to have an easily pluggable css engine. (For example to make a HTML → PDF library). Weasyprint for example reimplements the whole css stack. Don’t know if one could use stylo for that. (Besides weasyprint being implemented in python).

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      1. Andrew Ɠɨḃșȏȵ‏ @goofballLogic Jan 27
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        Oh yes should is here again

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      1. Paul Rumkin‏ @rumkin Jan 27
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        I’m working on such browser. Now it has pluggable network layer which allows users to add custom networks support, like IPFS, from userland. The main issue there I see is the “hell of engines”. Still thinking about the solution, it could become a real trouble.

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