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Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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770 points MrVandemar | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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systems ◴[15 Oct 24 14:04 UTC] No.41848736[source]▶
why python, why not a system programming language like C, OCaml or Go (or newer languages like zig or odin)

Are web browsers, not considered to be "system software"

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1. dvektor ◴[15 Oct 24 14:11 UTC] No.41848806[source]▶
I think the point is to demonstrate how things work and are designed, and python is easy for everyone to understand. I don't think the author is recommending trying to write a production web browser in python. (or probably at all ;)