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Google's "Blink" rendering engineGoogle's "Blink" rendering enginePosted Apr 3, 2013 22:32 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137)Parent article: Google's "Blink" rendering engine
> so today, we are introducing Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit.
"Based on WebKit" seems to indicate that this too will be written in C++. Any mention of Go is conspicuously absent from the press release.
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Google's "Blink" rendering engine Posted Apr 3, 2013 22:40 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Well, yes. They're basically evolving the WebKit in Chromium in a different direction, so it's not going to suddenly totally change language. This is surely, surely not related to the fact that Google and Apple have moved from being best buddies with shared board members to being direct competitors...
Google's "Blink" rendering engine Posted Apr 5, 2013 20:31 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
I think it's more that Google is wed to V8 while WebKit is wed to JavaScriptCore. Supporting both meant that there was an abstraction layer which prevented using a JS DOM implementation. My reading of the relevant threads gives me the impression that WebKit will be doing so as well now that JSC can be assumed.
Google's "Blink" rendering engine Posted Apr 3, 2013 22:41 UTC (Wed) by kov (subscriber, #7423) [Link]
Yep. It's a fork, they are starting from WebKit like WebKit started from KHTML.
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