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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 36 points 4 months ago (17 children)

I will never understand why people name stuff just by opening an English dictionary and simply picking a word.

Also why start a browser with C++? Google and Mozilla don't employ nincompoops to work on their browsers and still say 70% of their CVEs are due to memory management errors from C++. Instead of learning from that, they start yet another browser in C++.

In theory it great that this org wants to make an alternative, and probably being funded by a millionaire (billionaire?) can't hurt, but C++ man? Come on...

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] constableunstable@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I will never understand why people name stuff just by opening an English dictionary and simply picking a word

Naming stuff is hard.

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