On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Steve Fink wrote:
> The ignorance itself doesn't help, sure. But I still assert that there are
> benefits to having fewer things in your head, to have your focus wholly
> consumed by a more limited scope for the most part.
I'm skeptical that there are any advant
On 05/18/2016 01:38 PM, Bill McCloskey wrote:
I think we're starting to conflate separate concepts. I absolutely
believe that code should be modular. SpiderMonkey is a great example:
we're much more productive because of how well separated it is from
the rest of the browser. On the other hand,
I think we're starting to conflate separate concepts. I absolutely believe
that code should be modular. SpiderMonkey is a great example: we're much
more productive because of how well separated it is from the rest of the
browser. On the other hand, *people* should not be modular. You don't need
to
There's a lot of value in the Gecko / SpiderMonkey separation. There are
certainly other parts of Gecko that would benefit from having clearer
boundaries with their surrounding code. The Devtools team is working on
establishing such boundaries this quarter, removing all Gecko-specific code
(XUL and
Plenty have people have weighed in on the pro-integration side, which I
largely agree with, but I think nbp's motivation is valid and worth
looking into as an indication of real problems that are only going to
get worse if we commit entirely to maximum integration.
On 05/12/2016 05:04 PM, Ehsa
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