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Comment by atombender | Hacker News Reader

Before we give this the traditional Hacker News baptism by fire, keep in mind that this is apparently just one guy's project, and he's very junior:

  Waterfox was started back in March 2011 by Alex Kontos,
  a then 16 year old student. He had a fascination for
  the web and wanted to help expand on the ideals of what
  Mozilla had for a free and open web.

Be constructive, not snarky.

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Well, he's 20 now. And he's stuck with it for four years? That's pretty impressive.

Only in the context of our fleeting industry.

Still young; he's probably still a student. People react differently to negative criticism, of course, but to some it can be devastating.

Someone building a web browser for 4 years has definitely come across some negative criticism by now. The best criticism we can offer him is that which is constructive.

Yes. That really impressive. That's really a rare trait. The more impressive thing is the following from https://www.waterfoxproject.org/#about

> wanted to help expand on the ideals of what Mozilla had for a free and open web

At 16(or even at 20) understanding free and open web and the importance of it and take action for consecutive 4 years is really awesome. We need more clones of you. Thanks Alex Kontos.

Wasn't Blake Ross 16 when he wrote Phoenix/Firefox?

Wrote is a strong word, given he had the Netscape code.

Not to say that gecko wasn't a substantial work in itself, but in Phoenix, everything but gecko was new code.

This doesn't even cover how much "Netscape" code was actually in seamonkey in the first place, and how much was the other way around from Netscape 6 on.

If anything, I could have used stronger words.

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