Lars Buck on the future of Google Chrome
Lars Bak (Lars Bak), a leading developer of the v8 engine in the Google Chrome browser, talks about the reasons that prompted his company to start developing a browser two and a half years ago, as well as plans for the future. Let's translate some interesting excerpts from this interview .
Do not you think that the performance of Chrome in the processing of scripts and your innovations forced the developers of other browsers to pay attention to this too?
It is necessary to understand that the existence of one fast browser, when everything else is slow, is not good, because in any case, applications have to be optimized for the slowest browser. Therefore, we want all browsers to be fast.
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Do you think you managed to create a browser that is a little closer to guaranteeing normal web applications in the future?
I think I can say that. I mean, we started work not from scratch. I've been working on virtual machines in languages like Java for twenty years, so Chrome definitely stands on the shoulders of these systems.
There was a lot of talk about the lack of support for third-party extensions, will it appear soon?
We are working on it. As we wrote in the blog, support will appear this year and it will be exactly what you want. I am confident that a healthy market for such extensions is emerging.
In the latest releases of some browsers, we see that some style ideas are borrowed from Chrome - is that good?
I don’t know if it’s an imitation or not, but the main reason we started this project is to encourage innovation. The source code is always open with us, so if someone wants to borrow things like the design of tabs at the top of the page, we are all for it. Encouraging innovation is the cornerstone of the entire Chrome project since its launch.
The browser and operating system is now quite difficult to imagine separately from each other, is not it?
Some people think that if their WiFi doesn’t work and the browser doesn’t start, their computer is broken! It seems that after buying a new computer, people now do not install applications at all. On a new PC, they use a browser. The web is becoming an integral part of the computer and the difference between the OS and the browser no longer means a lot. In the terminology of Google and Chrome, all internal applications are based on the web, so we adapt browsers for this use.
Do not you think that the performance of Chrome in the processing of scripts and your innovations forced the developers of other browsers to pay attention to this too?
It is necessary to understand that the existence of one fast browser, when everything else is slow, is not good, because in any case, applications have to be optimized for the slowest browser. Therefore, we want all browsers to be fast.
')
Do you think you managed to create a browser that is a little closer to guaranteeing normal web applications in the future?
I think I can say that. I mean, we started work not from scratch. I've been working on virtual machines in languages like Java for twenty years, so Chrome definitely stands on the shoulders of these systems.
There was a lot of talk about the lack of support for third-party extensions, will it appear soon?
We are working on it. As we wrote in the blog, support will appear this year and it will be exactly what you want. I am confident that a healthy market for such extensions is emerging.
In the latest releases of some browsers, we see that some style ideas are borrowed from Chrome - is that good?
I don’t know if it’s an imitation or not, but the main reason we started this project is to encourage innovation. The source code is always open with us, so if someone wants to borrow things like the design of tabs at the top of the page, we are all for it. Encouraging innovation is the cornerstone of the entire Chrome project since its launch.
The browser and operating system is now quite difficult to imagine separately from each other, is not it?
Some people think that if their WiFi doesn’t work and the browser doesn’t start, their computer is broken! It seems that after buying a new computer, people now do not install applications at all. On a new PC, they use a browser. The web is becoming an integral part of the computer and the difference between the OS and the browser no longer means a lot. In the terminology of Google and Chrome, all internal applications are based on the web, so we adapt browsers for this use.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/53318/
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