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by throwawaymaths 258 days ago
lightpanda and bun
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Lightpanda looks interesting, thanks for the hint. According to public sources, behind the development is a company of 2-10 employees (like Bun). The engine uses parts of the Netsurf browser (written in C) and the V8 engine (written in C++), and - as far a I can tell - is in an early development stage.
> The main idea is to avoid any graphical rendering and just work with data manipulation

Which makes the engine much smaller and less complex than a "normal" browser.