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I wouldn’t call Chrome a pile of shit software. If anything else we should learn from this project

And the web is the most advanced and open OS in the world. That all those features can be packaged into a 100MB binary is magic

Real. The Chrome rendering stack is such an inspiration for how to do high performance GUIs on multiple operating systems.

> how to do high performance GUIs on multiple operating systems.

By being a poorly-behaved process until you are caught red-handed.

Did you mention this as some sort of gotcha? This article is over 12 years old.

Chrome has gone through almost two rewrites of their core rendering stack since then. It's impressive work.

Although this itself is outdated, I remember enjoying "Life of a Pixel"[0] back when it came out.