alt Hacker NewsIf LLMs allow them to speedrun to an alternative mainstream browser, then full speed ahead.
A third runner in this space would make the browser market a lot healthier than the current chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly.
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isametry • today at 11:33 AM
>chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly
Blink (Chrome) is not WebKit. If anything, the duopoly is Blink and WebKit at places 1 and 2 respectively.
Firefox is at around 3% market share. There’s no “-poly” to Gecko at all.
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I’d rather have a good browser which took its time to get things right than a speed run one.
Too much software is written like that, and the result is that most things are shit. What are we in such a hurry for? To get more time to work more? Fucking chill. Do things slowly and right.
As a side thought, speed running seems like the wrong analogy for software. Speed runners in games are people who spend a ton of time doing the exact same steps over and over to find tiny optimisations and develop muscle memory to do something repeatable. They take the time to do it well. Being a good speed runner means embracing slow progress. It’s the antithesis of software, where rushing to get it out also means you barely look at it. You do it fast but seldom right.