@nebulaone to Ask Lemmy • 1 month agoWhy is it so expensive to develop a web browser?message-square58arrow-up1131arrow-down13
arrow-up1128arrow-down1message-squareWhy is it so expensive to develop a web browser?@nebulaone to Ask Lemmy • 1 month agomessage-square58
minus-square@9point6link36•1 month agoThey’re basically as complex as operating systems these days. You need to implement several huge standards in order to get relatively simple modern sites to load
minus-square@Zangooselink26•edit-21 month agoFun fact: chromium has about 1.5 million more lines of code than the Linux kernel (about 32mil vs about 30.5mil), not including whitespace/docs/etc.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 month agoIt is however also worth noting that lines of code is a not great metric for complexity But yes, as a casual comparison it’s interesting
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoIIRC, even KDE and their whole suite of apps are dwarfed by the LOC count of browser (forgot if it is firefox or chromium)
They’re basically as complex as operating systems these days.
You need to implement several huge standards in order to get relatively simple modern sites to load
Fun fact: chromium has about 1.5 million more lines of code than the Linux kernel (about 32mil vs about 30.5mil), not including whitespace/docs/etc.
It is however also worth noting that lines of code is a not great metric for complexity
But yes, as a casual comparison it’s interesting
IIRC, even KDE and their whole suite of apps are dwarfed by the LOC count of browser (forgot if it is firefox or chromium)