Opera moves to WebKit and V8 [LWN.net]

Opera moves to WebKit and V8

Posted Feb 18, 2013 16:36 UTC (Mon) by maderik (subscriber, #28840)
In reply to: Opera moves to WebKit and V8 by robert_s
Parent article: Opera moves to WebKit and V8

This is silly -- s/Webkit/Linux kernel/ -- anyone can fix bugs yet there are also plenty of quirks, some of which get standardized into features. Does that mean the Linux kernel as the most popular *nix implementation is a bad thing?

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Opera moves to WebKit and V8

Posted Feb 19, 2013 18:30 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

As long as it's not the only *nix implementation of note there's no problem.

I can graph Linux adoption and project an inaccurate date in the future when there will be no notable other *nix implementations. Whether everything will continue to be as okay as it is now is debatable; I'd say that we've already reached "only one notable implementation" land when it comes to certain categories of use. It will get worse and I just hope that nothing really bad happens as a result.