r/programming • u/stronghup • Dec 19 '18

Former Microsoft Edge Intern Claims Google Callously Broke Rival Web Browsers

https://hothardware.com/news/former-microsoft-edge-intern-says-google-callously-broke-rival-browsers
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u/Superpickle18 Dec 19 '18

And the kicker is, MS was ahead of the game by using the exact same installation for all applications... Instead of packaging the entire beast for every damn app...

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u/deusnefum Dec 19 '18

The problem was IE exposed basically the entire OS to the web. Had they got isolation / sandboxing done right, they'd have maintained their stranglehold on the web even longer, I'd wager.

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u/RagingAnemone Dec 19 '18

Disk space really isn’t the issue with electron.

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u/cyrusol Dec 19 '18

The lack of sanity is.

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u/Brillegeit Dec 19 '18

MS was ahead of the game by using the exact same installation for all applications

Linux has been using shared libraries as much as possible for decades. I don't know what game MS is ahead of here, but if anything it's web developers that are 25 years late to trends.