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"How I built my own browser, starting with nothing but a browser"

Next up: how I painted my own Impressionist masterpiece, starting with nothing but a high-resolution camera, access to a museum, and an inkjet printer; how I wrote my own operating system, starting with nothing but Linux (ahem, https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos doesn't have a kernel yet); how I built my own sports car, starting with nothing but a Lamborghini.

Claiming that you've written "a new web browser" because you've stuck your own URL bar and tabs on Blink is absurdity bordering on fraud, like claiming that Shiva Ayyuradai "invented email", that tempered glass ovenware is "pyrex", that physics and chemistry are "not philosophy", that submicron gold particles are "nanotechnology", or that Ayn Rand is "a philosopher". It's the kind of claim that can only survive by redefining a decades-old term to mean something much more trivial.


Add fexprs and a system F-based type system to lisp/scheme, and I might just go there...

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