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.
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.