• Eddie@lemmy.lucitt.social
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    11 months ago

    Thought I’d throw my opinion into the ring here, since literally every comment is shitting on this.

    Arc is a design project, that also happens to be a web browser. If you’re just calling this “another chromium fork”, I think you’re completely missing the point of who this product is for. First of all, it’s not for you.

    Secondly, the design changes that arc is working on perfecting are pretty groundbreaking. The ability to customize the css and functionality of any web page without code and it saves your profiles for future use with a marketplace is super interesting to me. So much UI on modern websites is entirely unnecessary. As a designer, this is a dream.

    Also, nobody is mentioning that their working on a Windows version THAT NATIVELY RUNS SWIFT ON WINDOWS. This is a big deal for future cross compatibility in general, why are so many people not looking at this?

    Anyway that’s my rant. Trying to voice my opinions even if they’re the odd ones out to prevent a Lemmy based echo chamber. Feel free to disagree.

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      The whole problem is that the free internet is dying because google is starting to get a monopoly over it.

      So, yes, “just another Chromium browser” is a very valid criticism, because it quite literally aids in jeopardizing the future of the internet.

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        11 months ago

        I know a little about browsers, but not tons. Do all Chromium-based browsers use the same rendering engines? If so, isn’t it an issue as these Chromium browsers proliferate? If the engine deviates from the standards and they have the market share, feel like we just end up in the IE situation back then.

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      11 months ago

      Well why didn’t you say we get cool trinkets and shiny doodads?! That’s totally worth handing control over the entire internet to a single corporation.

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      The ability to customize the css and functionality of any web page without code

      Isn’t that something other browsers have been able to do for ages with add-ons like stylus, greasemonkey and others. it doesn’t seem all that groundbreaking.

      People might be hesitant to download a different browser what they can accomplish with a simple addon.

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      what’s the big deal about swift?? the language has been cross-platform for quite some time now, it’s just there wasn’t much point for it on neither windows nor linux outside of “oh look i can write a hello world in swift”

      good on them for utilizing it but I don’t think it’s revolutionary or anything

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      11 months ago

      Using Swift on Windows is pretty damn cool! I wonder if they’ll contribute to the ecosystem because it would certainly help.