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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: 0.201s | 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. FartyMcFarter ◴[15 Oct 24 14:15 UTC] No.41848859[source]▶
They definitely are system software, since they include compilers and interpreters, software libraries and other such things which AFAIK have always been considered system software.

Browsers these days are about as complex as any operating system, or perhaps more complex when you consider all the non-systems stuff in them.