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Post #3426127
2026-06-26 11:55 UTC
@gvenema@fairmove.net @lisamelton@mastodon.social From my experience working on the WebKit team at Apple (2011–2014), it always seemed like Google had an army of engineers working on Chrome and we had a dozen or so people working on WebKit. We just didn't have the workforce to keep up after they forked. There were other contributors but for the most part they were doing platform integrations, not core features. Was kinda depressing.
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@endrift@social.treehouse.systems 2026-06-26 11:59
@gvenema@fairmove.net @lisamelton@mastodon.social Meanwhile I was frustrated by how quickly Chrome kept throwing new shit at the wall and saying "this is now the way", as though the old way to do something was completely useless now. It felt like an anti-competitive attempt to railroad the market onto using Chrome when the web devs kept gobbling it up. And now everything is Chrome...