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They're not incompetent, they're just developing a web browser. Which means using all kinds of gnarly bleeding-edge optimization techniques that introduce massive complexity just to get Twitter to display 140-byte messages with reasonable performance, not to mention dozens of nasty parsers for nasty data formats. Basically, what I'm saying is that the web sucks. I think web browsers are probably more complex than operating systems at this point.


I totally agree. That's the kind of complexity and BS that developers often have to deal with which I'm referring to. Hard to imagine an unsafe by default language not breaking eventually.




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