We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
Since “The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers” is depicted at the start of the article, I think it’s worth pointing out that its claim of W3C having 1,217 specs totalling 114 million words is <i>wildly</i> wrong, probably by 2–3 orders of magnitude in the total. The considerable majority of the documents considered were not specs or not web-relevant, and dozens of versions of the same thing were often counted. Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22617721" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22617721</a>.