couldnt things like eg firefox be written in some scripting language and use a prebuilt library for the renderer tho?!

theres 0 need for the browser UI to use C++ or rust. and it's mostly webshit anyway
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@piggo Yes. I've written things basically architected like that. Sometimes it's kind of nasty because of bugs a compiler would have just failed on/worse debugger support, but if the native core is well thought out, feature development goes so much faster and you can often get customizations/fixes out to people without a need for changes in the core.

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