I am making this web browser. Ask me anything. Bug report welcome.

thisislife2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Good effort! Did you consider using Netsurf codebase ( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) or contributing to it? (The website is outdated but the development is ongoing and active).

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lewisjoe 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Congrats on the journey. How did you implement the layouting engine? And how much of an effort did it take?

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fcpguru 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

why not join up with https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird ?

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roschdal 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Nordstjernen is a ~30 kLOC solo-built C browser aimed at being a small, hardened web reader for the text-heavy web, while Ladybird is a ~500 kLOC funded C++ project aiming to be a fully standards-compliant third browser engine alongside Blink, WebKit, and Gecko.

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fcpguru 6 hours ago | parent [-]

ok good answer. next q: why not team up with https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser and zig and make this both the small headless browser + a human one

	▲	roschdal 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nordstjernen is a small, sandboxed, JIT-free GTK browser for humans to read the web; Lightpanda is a Zig-based headless V8 browser for AI agents to script it.

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tuwtuwtuwtuw 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It looks like AI slop. Is it AI slop?

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flustercan 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are you asking the author to validate your own opinion? Why don't you explain why you think its slop and provide some evidence to back up your assertions and we can have a real discussion.

	▲	tuwtuwtuwtuw 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, I am asking the author whether it's AI slop. As for evidence, sir, this is a wendys.

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drabbiticus 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

slop is such a poorly defined term that it's very hard to answer your question meaningfully. Is all code generated by AI slop? Many different opinions on this and questions to be answered as LLMs continue to shift the programming landscape.

Having said that, you could have just clicked the link and found https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/commits/mai... with a bunch of commits by claude. It took longer to write this than it took to figure out whether AI was used.