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dralley on Aug 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?

Browsers are some of the most heavily optimized software out there, and they use a lot of memory.

I don't think switching from C++ to Lisp would work out so well.

Reelin on Aug 21, 2020 [–]

Are you aware of how heavily optimized (for example) SBCL is? Similarly, significant portions of Firefox are implemented in JavaScript at this point.

I'm willing to accept a Fortran implementation via FFI for the truly performance sensitive bits though. /s

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