On: Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta

[danpalmer]

> I like that they're doing something new and that their rendering engine is interchangeable.

The UI rendering engine, not the web content rendering which is all Chromium.

[tmikaeld → danpalmer]

> Excitingly, we built Arc in a way that makes it easy to swap rendering engines in the future.

> This means we may offer a WebKit version one day, or even build a rendering engine of our own. Time will tell!" [0]

[0] https://arc.net/faq

[danpalmer → tmikaeld]

Ok fair enough. I've never heard them boast about this as an advantage in their other material (release notes, YouTube videos). I don't think this is really an advantage until they do actually have a different engine that you can swap out. Right now it feels very tied to Chromium.

They have however done some cool things with running Swift on Windows and rendering the UI via Windows APIs.