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"Arc isn’t just a Chromium fork. It runs on custom infrastructure we call ADK — the Arc Development Kit. Think of it as an internal SDK for building browsers (e
by Waraqa 1y ago
"Arc isn’t just a Chromium fork. It runs on custom infrastructure we call ADK — the Arc Development Kit. Think of it as an internal SDK for building browsers (especially those with imaginative interfaces). That’s our secret sauce. It lets ex-iOS engineers prototype native browser UI quickly, without touching C++."
https://open.substack.com/pub/browsercompany/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025 https://open.substack.com/pub/browsercompany/p/letter-to-arc...
- scosman 1y agoA UI framework? What’s the other $608m for?
- Groxx 1y agoYeah, I kinda read that as "it's not just a chromium fork with additional code. the code is organized. nobody has ever done that before!"
- ale 1y agoJust like the old Carlin joke. Made me chuckle.
- shruggedatlas 1y agoI wanted you to know that, due to this comment, I "lost" approximately 45 minutes watching George Carlin's best jokes
- potamic 1y agoWhat was the joke?
- ausssssie 1y agoOr... A UI framework? what's the other $612m for?
- cosmicgadget 1y agoSounds perfect for Atlassian's love of "imaginative" interfaces.
- manquer 1y agoIs a browser SDK for iOS worth that kind of money targeted users who are comfortable with Objective-C and not C++ even a market of note. It would be one thing if they said it is for say JS developers or something a-la electron there are plenty of apps from MS teams to slack to linear etc who perhaps would pay for that enough, but swift /objective C dev not comfortable with c++ would be minuscule market ?
- daveidol 1y agoObjC is mostly dead, and most Swift devs are not comfortable with C++.
- manquer 1y agoC++ isn't all that much harder or different from Swift to learn. They play fairly well with each other, you can import and call C++ quite easily from Swift. It is not like switching from a REPL, browser friendly,inferred typed forgiving language like say JavaScript to Rust with the occasionally cryptic compiler, the unforgiving borrow checker and ownership concepts. Perhaps people are less comfortable with the libraries and SDKs and tooling from the C++ world for app development. I didn't imagine that such a market was worth buying a company for $610M in 2025 when most apps are web based in one way or other.
- hahn-kev 1y agoHow's that different from Electron?
- weaksauce 1y agothat's kinda funny since that's basically exactly how firefox does it with the chrome of the browser being javascript and html and css itself.
- IshKebab 1y agoCool, but $600m cool? I don't see how.
- buzzert 1y agoProbably a Swift wrapper for the Chromium Embedded Framework.
- rafram 1y agoFor all those playing at home: this blog post contains 46 em-dashes.