- Safari is (on macOS) the only good application and web browser. Chrome is a remarkable feat of engineering but a mediocre application.
- Arc is extremely promising. Reimagining the shape, function, and purpose of a web browser for our current computational surplus is a worthwhile endeavor. On the flip-side, I hope that grassroots efforts like the Ladybird browser and browser jams will produce more diversity in how browser engines operate and what it means to construct a browser engine in the first place.
- Web browsers, as application platforms and as document viewers, are an incredible technological accomplishment. Trillions of renders per day, things mostly work, and the security/sandboxing model works without embarrassing flaws. Viewed over years and decades, progress in web browsers has been remarkable.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, web browsers are the worst cross-platform application framework except for all the other ones that have been tried.
