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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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520 points kevinyew | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Pfhortune ◴[04 Sep 25 17:05 UTC] No.45129487[source]▶
It has been so tragic to see the unforced downfall of this company. Arc is such an amazing browser that really did some new and interesting things. They clearly have some phenomenal talent on the team, having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking!

And they threw it away to work on (probably) the CEO's new fixation and threw Arc away like an old toy. And now they're selling to Atlassian and I would bet money, will just evaporate. Nothing they ever built will mean anything to Atlassian in the long term. Nobody wants to use an Atlassian browser.

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taminka ◴[04 Sep 25 17:55 UTC] No.45130131[source]▶
> having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking!

im not a swift expert, but building your project for one of the officially supported targets shouldn't be considered a "phenomenal" achievent? lol

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1. Pfhortune ◴[04 Sep 25 18:08 UTC] No.45130295[source]▶
Ah, fair enough. Showing my ignorance on that one. I know little about their tech stack and was under the impression they had some secret sauce.
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2. taminka ◴[04 Sep 25 18:16 UTC] No.45130407[source]▶
i mean they did have some really cool designs, but technically they just had relatively advanced chrome fork...
3. basisword ◴[04 Sep 25 20:18 UTC] No.45131782[source]▶
You're not ignorant, the other person was.