Comment by hulitu

> Firefox is bad to compile yourself, because it's slow and often requires a library version you don't have, such as a new ICU version. Updating ICU also requires you to build packages that depend on it

> Chromium does not compile with gcc. Of course, it needs a specific clang release, sometimes even a pre-release, or again a load of patches to compile

And that is what is wrong with today software: it is an uncompilable mess. It is "This program requires Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 4" brought to a new level.

Software has become balkanized.