By some strange coincidence maintaining a working web browser became a task that only Google can do "properly". Microsoft gave up. Firefox is struggling. Doing something from scratch is insanity.
So here we are. A website choke-full of people who constantly post about modulariy, protocols and advanced type systems, yet sheepishly accept that a browser with its zillion unrelated features is a giant, tightly coupled blob that cannot be tackled by anyone except an ubercorp like Google.
So here we are. A website choke-full of people who constantly post about modulariy, protocols and advanced type systems, yet sheepishly accept that a browser with its zillion unrelated features is a giant, tightly coupled blob that cannot be tackled by anyone except an ubercorp like Google.