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by hartator 1835 days ago
> you are helping push the web become an increasingly centralized place

Does it? Open source standardization is a good thing. Still not sure why html/css/js engine should be the exception. No one is calling for competition for QR code, torrent protocol, or the other billion of very dominant open source projects.

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It's not really open source standardization though. Google is in charge, make no mistake. Yes people can take it and tweak it, but the main feature changes are dictated by Google.
HTML, CSS, JS, QR codes, and Bittorrent are data formats or protocols, not implementations.
but we have multiple compilers for the same language though. And multiple OS too.