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I also have very fond memories of Flash

… I also have very fond memories of Flash. Apart from resolution - when I had my project working on my machine I had 100% certainty that it would work exactly the same on every client. Including mobile, kiosks, and desktop deployments. Times were different, BigCos lived in siloes, ES4 went to shit and we needed another 15 years to reinvent the wheel with TS, but today everyone seems to be on the same team and browsers are shockingly compatible.

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> ELI5 why we need more engines? We don't. But we could use a memory safe one, so that a random website can't steal your credit card info. Unfortunately Servo is the only one that's actively developed and is written in a memory safe language; the rest are all C++.

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because otherwise google will control the web standards via chrome implementation. Whatever pains you deal with cross-browser compatibility, it's nothing like the pain of web development when IE was dominant. Like the IE era, we are heading towards an environment where whatever google says, goes.

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scuff3dHN

Because its probably not a good idea to have one company essentially control the internet through their browser. Firefox is practically irrelevant and Safari only matters if you're on an Apple device.

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