Comment by kccqzy
11 hours ago
I sincerely believe you need much more than one billion tokens to rewrite the entire PDF dependency stack in a memory safe language. I think you underestimate how many features PDF has.
11 hours ago
I sincerely believe you need much more than one billion tokens to rewrite the entire PDF dependency stack in a memory safe language. I think you underestimate how many features PDF has.
I wish that Apple today was a little more like the Apple that ruthlessly murdered the floppy disc and Flash.
Seriously though, I wonder why nobody really attempted to dethrone PDF yet. How hard can it be (famous last words) to design a document format that allows what people generally expect from a PDF, but without the multimedia and interactive parts that are dangerous?
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Network effect. Most documents are PDF. You would need at least backward compatibility, which would mean opening doors to the existing problem.
Firefox has been working on this and are making good headway over the last few years.