>why Toyota Corollas and Ford F-150's don't use the same engine Yeah, they're no... | Hacker News

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		sixplusone on Nov 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components >why Toyota Corollas and Ford F-150's don't use the same engine Yeah, they're now a weaker (browser) engine bolted on with adapters to the gui engine. Everyone gets to go through the js bottleneck.

FussyZeus on Nov 20, 2019 [–]

To continue the metaphor, it's like every car has the same crappy transmission.

HeWhoLurksLate on Nov 21, 2019 | [–]

More like Electron adds its own crappy transmission to whatever you had already

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