Re: [chromium-dev] What is the name of the language in which is written the main program of Chromium ?

[Jakob Kummerow]

Hi Naomi and Sophie,

most of Chromium is written in C++.

Learning how to program is a great plan, and I highly recommend it, as it can be lots of fun! However, C++ is not the most beginner friendly language, and Chromium's code base is so huge that it's not the most suitable project for beginners either.

Fortunately, there's a much easier way to extend Chromium's functionality, and that's through what we call extensions, which are mostly written in JavaScript. Take a look at https://developer.chrome.com/extensions, and in particular https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest for how to let an extension interact with network requests.

You might also want to get started with some general introductory programming course. There are plenty of books as well as online tutorials; however I don't know any of them well enough to give a particular recommendation.

Have fun!

Jakob

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Naomi <naomija...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,


We would like to develop a new plugin for Chromium.

To achieve this goal, we must learn at least one computer language.

We do not know its / their name(s).


Do you know the name of the computer language in which is written the program
contains

1) the variable whose value at time t is the URL to which the resources of the Chromium browser of mister X is connected at time t;

2) the variable whose value at time t is the text resources to which the Chromium browser of mister X is connected at time t.

Assembly?
C?
C ++?
Java?
Python?


Do you know how to find the names of these variables in the source code of Chromium ? With documentation designed by the developers of this software ?


Thank you very much.


Sincerely,
Naomi and Sophie

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