Followup: modularity, WebExtensions, and going faster

[Brunoais]

I agree with Benjamin here.


On 10-10-2016 05:57, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Robert Helmer <rhelmer at mozilla.com 
> <mailto:rhelmer at mozilla.com>> wrote:
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>     I agree. I think our problem is that hacking on Firefox is
>     exceptionally hard, and testing+shipping it is too. I don't think
>     either of things are hard because there aren't good enough boundaries
>     between different components.
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> This is where I think we (Robert and I) fundamentally disagree. I 
> believe that hacking on Firefox is exceptionally hard *because* there 
> aren't good boundaries. I think there's a lot to discuss about the 
> nature of those boundaries: JSMs versus WebExtensions versus future 
> Rust versus HTML iframes. But we just don't have effective boundaries 
> right now, and that is one of the reasons why hacking the Firefox 
> frontend is so difficult and exhausting.
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> --BDS
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