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by garmaine 2470 days ago
Neither WebKit nor LLVM started at Apple.
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saagarjha 2470 days ago
WebKit was an Apple project; I'm off by a little bit on LLVM as Lattner was hired after he started the project at UIUC.
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maaaats 2470 days ago
Webkit is Apple, yes, but it was a fork of something existing (khtml)
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saagarjha 2470 days ago
Right. Apple took the code from KHTML/KJS and wrapped it so it would work on macOS.
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