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Maybe if Chromium was written in a memory-safe language there would be fewer zero-days?
Yes, and that's why Chromium moved to allow Rust code (pretty much like they did for Android).
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New Reddit or Old Reddit?
New Reddit rendering “properly” is as useful as a chocolate fire guard. Do you want to view this content on the app? You Can Only View This Content In The App, THE APP is the WAY, JUST FUCKING DOWNLOAD THE APP!!! At least on mobile.
Every time a new browser appears and is applauded by HN, a NetSurf dev opens a beer...
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Why not just fork chromium with all the Google analytics/tracking removed?
There's ungoogled chromium for that. Also doing that doesn't solve the standards problem we currently have. Google is able to push through any "standard". And those standards "unwittingly" help them maintain their search/ad dominance or prevent competitors. For example see manifest v3 or FloC (a.k.a Topics API). Once they gain enough traction and become indispensible, you either implement them or risk losing users.
There's still zero day exploits found in chromium, wouldn't using using this put you at a huge risk of running into malware in the wild that this browser can't protect against?
I somewhat wonder—Firefox and Chrome are in a constant race to have the best JavaScript performance. In general, the sites I want to browse use minimal JavaScript, prudently, if at all, just where it is strictly necessary to add little dynamic features. So, I don’t really care about JavaScript performance at all. Optimization sometimes introduces additional complexity, which might open up the possibility of security…
Isn't this just the noscript, which breaks most sites to a degree where they're impossible to use or load?
The x64.dmg release[1] requires macOS 13+, why? [1] https://web.crabnebula.cloud/verso/verso-nightly/releases
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For everything. Swift is—at least in theory—a general purpose language, it's not exclusively for Apple technologies. > First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics. > Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has f…
Swift is useless outside of macOS/iOS dev… the thing doesn’t even have namespacing. I don’t know for what reason someone would use it outside for Apple environment.
However, Apple's history is very much stacked against Swift becoming a mainstream language outside of Apple's platform.
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There is old.reddit.com, reddit.com and new.reddit.com. new.reddit.com is not the same site as reddit.com!
TIL. new.reddit seems to be a return to old.reddit in a lot of ways. It also seems really really fast unlike the current www.reddit. If they remove some annoying ads I might even be convinced to stop using old.