Is anyone aware of any FOSS browser replacement projects? Being a “full stack dev” (feels like a false skill set most of the time) I’m at this point where there are easily enough of us who have struggled with implementing web apps in the various frameworks and tools that essentially all boil down to JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

There’s nothing wrong with them individually, but with modern languages and hardware we should be able to make something better. At least in a way to encourage adoption of something better, and I want to contribute to it.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Can you clarify what you’re asking for?

    If you mean a web browser that isn’t based on Firefox or Chromium, the Ladybird project might fit.

    If you mean a web-like platform that doesn’t use fancy things like JavaScript, HTML and CSS, there is Gemini.

    Do you mean something else?

    • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Excited to see ladybird get more mature. Can’t wait to see how well development goes over the next 2 years or so.

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Sort of both? Gemini is definitely close to what I’m approaching. Let me dig into it more.

      Servo is a great example of what I’m talking about.

      Ladybird seems to be aimed at supporting the “legacy web” if you will, and being written in C++ is also getting away from addressing complexity issues in a next generation web I’m imagining.

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Maybe I do mean something else. Web browsers currently implement a JavaScript engine and handle the running and memory of that code on the users machine.

      Something like Typescript is a great example of an improvement, but Typescript is essentially JavaScript with rules.

      Blazor allows JavaScript like interactions, allows the developer to write in C# but gets rendered serverside.

      So essentially, I’m looking for a web engine that provides JavaScript like interaction in some other well defined language like Rust, C#, etc.

      • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Blazor allows JavaScript like interactions, allows the developer to write in C# but gets rendered serverside

        Blazor can compile .NET to Webassembly and run that in the web-browser.

      • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Current web browser engines generally support JavaScript and WebAssembly, and no others (unless via a plugin, as with Java).

        So, if I understand you correctly, your options are to find a language that transpiles down to one of those two (several such languages exist), or find an engine that isn’t precisely a web engine but supports some alternative language(s). I don’t know any useful examples of the latter, but perhaps someone else will chime in with something like that.