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aeturnum 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

LuaJIT has ~85k lines of code. Chromium and Firefox have somewhere in the neighborhood of ~30 million. If you need ~1 developer for "a LuaJIT" then you need ~350 developers for a browser.

l___l 10 months ago [–]

The assumption that a browser needs ~30 million lines of code may be false.

It may be possible for a scripting language with at least the same features as LuaJIT to be as fast as LuaJIT in less than 85K lines of code.

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