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Genbox | 3 months ago

It is also kinda a self-burn. Chromium an aging code base [1]. It is written in a memory unsafe language (C++), calls hundreds of outdated & vulnerable libraries [2] and has hundreds of high severity vulnerabilities [3].

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

[1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commits/main/?after=c5a...

[2] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/DEPS

[3] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?...

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mycall|3 months ago

Given Google's resources, I'm a little surprised they having created an LLM that would rewrite Chromium into Go/Rust and replace all the stale libraries.