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Ask HN: What Is Chrome Written In?

2 pointsby apstuffover 16 years ago
Did Google use their toolkit or was another development platform employed?

2 comments

yanover 16 years ago
Chrome uses WebKit as their engine, which is written in C++. In terms of UI and the remainder of their internals, I believe it is custom-done, also in C++. I haven't looked too in-depth into their code, but you can get a lot more information about the source tree here: <a href="http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-the-chrome-source-code" rel="nofollow">http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-th...</a>
lackerover 16 years ago
The Google Web Toolkit doesn't really make sense for a browser, it's designed to make websites.<p>Chrome is written in C++. Since it's open source you can even check out the code:<p><a href="http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/" rel="nofollow">http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/</a>