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by harry8 2118 days ago
Original cross-platform Netscape was iirc. Quality died when they went to c++? Probably less influential on their fate than Microsoft.
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> Quality died when they went to c++?

when they went to c++ it became Firefox. do you think we'd have a better firefox today had it stayed in C ?

/When/ they went, which, iirc was Netscape 4 (?). It was horrendous, crashing, slow buggy, awfulness, which the previous version really wasn't. This was when it was all closed and proprietary.

Firefox came a long time later. Well after Mozilla opened.

No idea if Firefox would be better if they'd stayed in c. What i do know is that c++ is a vastly, vastly better language now through no fault of the standards committee. G++ got good. Then came clang++, valgrind was an amazing leap forward too.

Before all that there really was no such thing as cross platform c++.