Interview with a Chrome Plated Googler
March 30, 2009
The dead tree Financial Times published “The Genius behind Google’s web Browser” here. If you are Google watcher you will want to read the interview. For me the most interesting comment in the interview was:
Many computer programs are built using previous versions, or related code, but V8 was started from scratch – a blank slate.
Bold statement. I think it may need some qualification, but that would interrupt the flow of a story that creates a story about two guys working in isolation to craft Chrome. My sources tell me that the Danes hooked into MOMA, collaborated with various Google wizards, and used that which was already hardened and available to Google wizards. I like the FT’s spin, but I think my understanding reflects a more likely work approach. If you know something different, honk at me via the comments. I can’t contain my enthusiasm. That’s contain as in “containers”, a Google innovation that seems quite useful to me when I run ig in Chrome. Well, maybe not because the FT says Chrome began with a “blank slate.”
Stephen Arnold, March 31, 2009
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