• cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        01·
        3 months ago

        It’s a monumental effort really, building a browser engine from scratch and taking it to daily driver usable is probably among the most difficult programming challenges. It’s way easier to build a new Linux kernel from scratch than a browser engine lmao

        Even Microshit tried and gave up because it was so hard

          • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            01·
            3 months ago

            The W3C (The body that dictates web standards) specification, that describes what browser engines should handle, like CSS features, HTML5 etc and how is equivalent to thousands of pages long and there are huge standards to implement.

            HTML5 is a big thing to implement, so is CSS and the JavaScript engine and probably even more technologies I’m forgetting

            And that’s just implementation, it takes even more work to get them running well enough for the average end-user

            Ladybird has been working on their from scratch engine for ~5 years iirc and they’re not planning to even have the first alpha out until next year lol

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    0·
    3 months ago

    I’m never going to be one to dog on something before I try it. If it’s good and can offer the same or better experience as Firefox then sign me up. The biggest sticking point for me, though, is potentially losing Firefox’s massive add-in library. I really like my uBlock Origin and Restore YouTube Dislike and my VPN extension and Metamask and all the other crap I’ve got there.