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It was forked over 10 years ago now. I doubt their shared past is even recognizable now.

• jwells89 3y ago
  There were substantial differences even from day one. As I recall one of the differences of opinion that was a driving cause of the fork was the multiprocess model; WebKit team wanted that to be part of the framework, letting any WebKit-embedding app get it for “free”, whereas the Blink team wanted it to be part of Chromium with non-Chromium users of Blink needing to bring their own multiprocess.
  • DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
    > with non-Chromium users of Blink needing to bring their own multiprocess. Isn't that what happened anyway? The non-Chromium dists of Blink like Electron and WebView2 both employ the same multi-process approach as Chrome.exe (and my RAM availability is suffering for it...)
    • jwells89 3y ago
      Electron bundles Chromium, not Blink directly. Believe this is true of WebView2 too but am not well-versed in Windows internals. In fact I’m not aware of any major non-Chromium usages of Blink, except maybe in Qt (where it replaced WebKit a few years ago) but I’m not sure about that either.
      • Macha 3y ago
        Nah, QtWebEngine is using Chromium, not Blink directly
  • zx8080 3y ago
    > whereas the Blink team wanted it to be part of Chromium with non-Chromium users of Blink needing to bring their own multiprocess. Is that why Electron basically means Chromium?
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