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0 pointscududa9y ago0 comments

I was just thinking after reading this - sure there were some engineering marvels that enabled this, but for the implementation it was just rote work with the sheer manpower Microsoft can muster up. That in itself is just really impressive.

Edit: giving it more thought, a Mozilla engineer recently demo'd an immediate mode rendering engine that him and one other dev wrote in 9 months, with feature parity of modern browsers. So either way - big engineering effort or a couple '10x developers' - pretty impressive .

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the_why_of_y9y ago

Assuming you're talking about WebRender?

http://pcwalton.github.io/slides/webrender-talk-022016/

... which is notable because it is not immediate mode but the first retained mode renderer in a browser. Also, they used Rust to cut down on the time spent debugging threading issues.

cududaOP9y ago

Sorry - mixed up immediate/ retained

mamon9y ago

>> big engineering effort or a couple '10x developers' - pretty impressive

Or, being Mozilla engineer for quite some time he had enough domain knowledge to do that.

Or he found a clever way to reuse good parts of Mozilla code with just enough changes to avoid copyright infringement lawsuit.

cyphar9y ago

> Or he found a clever way to reuse good parts of Mozilla code with just enough changes to avoid copyright infringement lawsuit.

If he used code from free software he wouldn't be liable for copyright infringement, because that's the point of free software.

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