[jxi]

> So what? They couldn't make up excuses?

?? If there's practical reasons, then you need to explain why the practical reasons are not strong enough to warrant this? Just look at what was accomplished by this, they were able to delete over 8 million lines of code that was boilerplate.

> And others argue why it will.

Then, it's still not a strong argument against this.

> [snip]

What exactly are you advocating? Look at all the chromium design docs they wrote, and all the code reviews are in the open. If anything, the WebKit reviews are much harder to look through. The rest of your rant is irrelevant. Do you want them to spoon-feed you everything Chromium/Blink engineers do?

You can argue all day if you want, but what exactly are you proposing the alternative is? How does not forking help in any of those?