[approxim8ion]

Gopher is the opposite of new. Gemini is interesting for sure, but it's not an alternative to the web as they fully admit. It's an alternative to a subset of the web. Let's call it the document web. Blogs and articles and so on. But as entertaining as it is, it is a very very small subset.

[MaxBarraclough]

Respectfully, you're failing to engage with the purpose of the project.

> it's not an alternative to the web

Right. You can't have a lightweight drop-in alternative to the web, pretty much by definition. Any platform capable of everything modern browsers are capable of, is by definition enormously complex.

> it is a very very small subset

That's not a flaw, it's a design goal. It isn't meant to be a half-baked portable GUI toolkit the way the modern web platform is, it's meant to be a simple and minimal format, stable and easy to implement. There are other formats somewhat like this in common usage, like man pages and, of course markdown.

[approxim8ion]

I don't disagree with you at all. I like Gemini and think it is a very worthwhile pursuit.

[sfink]

That's the point. If you want the web, you need today's browsers. If you want a subset of the web, your "document web" for example, you can get away with something simpler.