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ben_w • today at 1:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

At this point, a browser is a significant part of the way to being an OS virtualised inside the OS it's really running on. Complete with occasional leaks through the virtualisation to the real host OS/machine.


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hnedeotes • today at 2:13 PM

Yes, chrome for instance is more lines of code than the entirety of Linux, I think this just makes the case stronger for what I said. Although I understand why it might be so.