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user3939382yesterday at 9:24 PM1 replyview on HN

CSS is the only thing from browsers we actually need. The rest can be done in a terminal. Contemporary terminals could even render the UI with way less memory. The browser is a nightmare because it wasn’t architected to run applications.


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azangruyesterday at 9:55 PM

> The browser ... wasn’t architected to run applications.

Could you explain this? What prevents the browser from running applications? How should it have been architected otherwise if running applications was the goal?